Mrs. Crimp
거구의 기선 화부 빌(조지 밴크로프트)은 자살하려는 거리의 여자 메이(베티 콤프슨)를 구해준다. 두 사람은 소란한 살롱에서 이야기를 나누다 순간적인 충동에 따라 결혼해 버린다. 그것이 진지한 결정이었는지 하룻밤 정사를 위한 핑계였는지는 알 수 없다. 차갑고 명징한 아침의 빛은 환멸과 변심을 가져온다. 그러나 나중에 빌은 충동적으로 배에서 내려, 자신이 메이에게 훔쳐다 주었던 드레스 때문에 메이가 받게 된 벌을 대신 받으러 가는데...
Toinette
Ralph Ince stars as Brute Shane, a South Pacific trader who has adopted native girl Saina (Olive Broden). When Shane rescues English lass Nona Deering (Claire Adams) from white slavers, the jealous Saina begins plotting Nona's demise.
Mrs. Fox
A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America with her cousins and causes havoc among the rather puritanical community members.
Nancy Sibley
1860 ushers in the era of iron ships, Richard Sibley, a builder of wooden ships, stubbornly resists the change, which leads him to forbid the marriage of his daughter Rose to John Rhead, a proponent of the new method. This injustice outrages John's sister Gertrude so much that she breaks off her engagement to Sibley's son Sam. Meanwhile, John and Rose elope.
Mrs. Purdy
Kid Burns vicariously enjoys life with his wealthy playboy pal. But complications ensue when Kid falls in love with a girl who just happens to be his friend's housemaid.
Writer
Left destitute by the death of her young husband, Ethel Wynne lives with her old nurse, Hester O'Brien, a laundress. During the day Ethel works as a clerk in a toy store, leaving her babies in the care of Hester, and in the evenings, helps out by doing ironing and housework. One day, while she is at the store, Harley Clarke, a wealthy bachelor, comes in with a group of boys and lets them select whatever toys they fancy. It is his birthday, and. seeing the children hungrily eyeing the window display, he has decided to celebrate the day by treating them. Ethel is very much impressed by Mr. Clarke's evident kindliness, and after he has left the shop, she gets his name and address from Mayme, the girl who waits on him. When she arrives home, she finds Hester very sick and is obliged to call a doctor, who has her taken to the hospital. Ethel is now in a sorry plight. She has no one to take care of the baby while she is away at work, and no means of supporting herself at home.
