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A loving mother dreams that she is a frightened child left alone with dangerous household objects.
A wife recreates a saloon at home to keep her beer-loving husband from going downtown.
A wealthy man’s day at Coney Island brings him close to a working girl and her very different world.
A waitress who cannot bear watching men eat presents two hungry suitors with an unusual courtship problem.
After years of solitary evenings, a sporting man's wife asks him to take her out to dinner.
A capable Texas ranch owner and her proud husband quarrel over who has the right to give orders.
New York detective Shamrock Jolnes dazzles his admiring companion with deductions about breakfast, shopping, and strangers.
A Texas buyer’s sudden courtship meets a New York model’s well-earned distrust of customers.
An old shoemaker claims to be the Wandering Jew, and a newspaper editor finds the town’s easy explanation unsatisfying.
Two swindlers hire a widow to make their marriage agency look honest, but her own romantic hopes complicate the business.
Two rogues seeking a federal appointment must trust a Washington lobbyist whom one of them dismisses for being a woman.
Two new ranch hands become fast friends, until a cow camp's practical jokes grow more ambitious than either expects.
A weary actress leaves the stage for a village romance, drawn to a minister whose manner seems unlike every man she knows.
A snowbound ranch house becomes less safe when two restless men pursue a stranded schoolteacher.
A sheriff finds two friendly Americans who fit the same fugitive's description, and neither offers to clear up his problem.
A former ranchman, reduced to walking his wife’s hostile lapdog, meets an old friend who remembers his life in the West.
A reform meant to modernize an election collides with old customs and one candidate’s exceptionally large household.
A cash-strapped host’s communal house party thrives because one guest is universally detested—and may be more useful than she seems.
A progressive king answers the suffrage movement by making voting compulsory for every woman—and for nearly every office.
Reginald avoids the tariff debate by applying protectionism to card partners, houseguests, and everyone who takes life seriously.
A bachelor postpones a conventional proposal to escape afternoon tea and finds a more appealing match in an unconventional cup.
As a country-house wing burns, guests debate whether a mysterious daughter is worth risking their very real lives to save.
On a Roman emperor’s birthday, suffrage protesters seize the circus track and force him to revise the order of entertainment.
A practical errand becomes evidence in a comic argument that going shopping and actually buying something are not the same.
