Pots-and-Pans Peggy (1917)

"A lady wants a good, honest girl!" the matron of the employment agency spoke to a room full of them, for they all rose to their feet and crowded about her. She continued, "to cook, and wait on table, and mend and sweep and wash and," but the place was empty of all aspirants save little Peggy McGraw. "Pots and Pans Peggy," she was called, and Peggy got the job. And she needed it, for four reasons, her four little orphan brothers and sisters. When she arrived at the Caldwell home and found the mother trying to marry off the unwilling daughter, Marian, who was in love with Jack, to a horrid millionaire, her sympathetic Irish heart revolted, and she ran Marian's affair for her to Jack's everlasting joy. The son of the house, Arthur, a rah-rah boy and a ne'er-do-well, fell in love with Peggy, but Peggy's heart was carted around the city under the jacket of Taxi Barney, who worked for his living. The millionaire, William Deane, got Arthur a job in the War Department, and then the fun began, for Deane was a thief and planned to use the guileless Arthur as his tool in a deal to sell some valuable plans to another country. The scheme worked, that is, half way, until Peggy stepped in. How she, with the aid of Barney and the implements of her trade, a broomstick and a vacuum cleaner, outwitted the villains, saved Robert and the Caldwell name and straightened out things generally, and how she became Taxi Barney's "fare" for life make a delicious tale of thrills and foolery.