Plot

Minnie Hone, a saleslady, is an idealist. She longs for the social life and all the things that wealth and culture can give. Six days a week she follows the Biblical rule and labors at her station at the ribbon counter. On the seventh day it is her custom to "doll up" and imitate, so far as lies in her power, the manners and customs of the wealthy folk. A parallel case is that of Dudley Dreamer, who for six days a week sells onions and beets, longing for the club room, the polo ground, and the private yacht the while. Fate conspires to bring these two together. Minnie receives from her aunt an elaborate street dress, which, with a hat and parasol purchased from her savings, helps to fit her out most becomingly and stylishly. On the following Sunday she prepares to go out and give Fifth Avenue a treat. On this same Sunday, Dudley has made great preparations for a similar outing, and sallies forth "lit up like a cathedral." They meet in Central Park, and each believes the other to be the pampered child of a multi-millionaire, at least. After having become acquainted, Dudley invites the fair "heiress" to dine with him. She accepts, and when they leave the restaurant, Dudley has just sufficient cash remaining to pay the taxi driver at the door of the hotel where Minnie says she stops. Hardly has Dudley walked around the corner, after bidding her adieu, when Minnie leaves by another entrance, and goes back to her hall bedroom in the boarding house. The next morning, as she is hurrying to get off to work, she goes to the window for the milk bottle which is standing outside. As she reaches out, she is horrified to see her "wealthy" admirer of the day before reaching out of the window next to hers, and taking from the line a pair of none-too-perfect socks. He sees her at the same time, and both "tumble." Dudley decides to make the most of the affair, and offers his apologies. Feeling that he has "nothing on her" in the matter of deception, she accepts, and she also accepts his offer to take her that evening, not to the opera, but to the universally popular "movies." And so they find, if not the realization of their dreams, at least the road to happiness.—Moving Picture World synopsis