An impoverished racetrack tout discovers that a crooked trainer is about to throw a race involving a nobleman's horse.

The Fairy of the Phone appears, tiptoeing along the wires between telephone poles, and administers reproofs and advice to all sorts of telephone users, aided by a singing chorus of operators.

American chorus-girl Mamie Wallace (Farrell) travels to Paris with a ramshackle touring musical revue. The company runs out of money, and it looks as though Mamie and her dancing colleagues are going to be stranded in Europe with no way home. Luckily, she meets a handsome, well-spoken Englishman Peter Millett (Hulbert), who falls in love with her and proposes marriage. Under the impression that he is a man of means, she readily accepts, imagining an entrée to English high society. The couple return to England and Mamie discovers to her horror that not only is her new home a decrepit farmhouse out in the sticks, but that Peter is a widower and his three children also come as part of the package.

A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears in court.

Publisher John Gillespie faces a financial crisis after his business partner skips town with all the firm's assets. Facing ruin, he reluctantly approaches a wealthy aunt for assistance but is met with a stony-faced refusal.

A newly married couple run into difficulty when the wife refuses to obey her husband.