Sally panics, after dropping on the sidewalk and breaking the mirror of her make-up compact, believing this will bring her bad luck. She spots a hunchbacked newspaper vendor, and touches his hump to bring her "good luck," to the man's annoyance. The superstition dates from ancient Greece, but still in the early 20th century some baseball teams hired "hunchbacks" to bring good luck. This cruel superstition is forgotten in the 21st Century, but 1925 audiences would have howled with laughter at the "gag."