A Maid to Order (1917)

• 75%
• 1917
• Comedy

Jay is being initiated into the Royal Good Fellows Lodge and is cleaning the globes of a street lamp post. Billie is on a hunt for a maid. The employment agency cannot secure one. Billie spies Jay at work and offers him a job as butler for her new tenant. Jay turns her down. Jay's initiation is followed by a banquet and afterward the boys go out for a good time. Tim, a policemen, dozing on his beat, becomes their victim and in the resulting chase Jay becomes the particular prey of the irate cop. Meanwhile, Billie has assumed the duties of maid. As she goes to the kitchen, Jay, whose line of retreat has led to Billie's kitchen door, leans against the door to rest. Billie opens it, Jay tumbles in and Billie makes him take the job of butler. At dinner, Jay's sister is a guest, she recognizes him but remains silent. Jay is much wrought up and drops his service tray, flees to the kitchen, finds Tim courting the cook, and jumps at the opportunity to fight. The arrival of a real maid and butler brings peace to everybody and Cupid does some initiating of his own.