Constance and Billy are sweethearts. Mr. and Mrs. Boggs, her parents, are both prim, straitlaced people, who are heathen in foreign lands. Pa Boggs has little use for young men of the present generation and when Billy awkwardly drops a race-track badge on the floor, Boggs rises up in his wrath and orders the "perfidious gambler" from his house forever. The old hypocrite later sees a newspaper item reading, "Liveliest cabaret in town at the Rose Garden," puts on his high hat and, after telling his wife he must attend a meeting of the Foreign Missions Society, sallies forth to the Rose Garden whistling, "I Love the Ladies." Billy, with some of his friends, enter the Rose Garden, and that young man almost faints on seeing Boggs flirting outrageously with one of the dancers. Billy tells his friends of a startling plan, they induce one of the performers to help, and Billy dresses up in some women's clothes. With a wig and plenty of rouge on his lips, he trips lightly out among the audience. So well disguised is he that when the charming Billy throws a kiss at Boggs, he almost falls off his chair applauding "her." Billy then comes and sits by Boggs. The old rascal begs "her" for a kiss, and Billy asks him for his gold cigar-cutter. After some hesitation, the swap is made, Billy kissing the old man on his bald head, leaving an imprint of the rouge there. Next morning Boggs wakes with an awful headache. His wife, seeing the rouge, thinks he has been hurt, and calls the doctor, Boggs having previously told her a story of highway robbers to explain the peculiar condition in which he came home. Billy calls to "return the cigar-cutter" and Boggs is almost speechless on learning it was Billy whom he flirted with. Dad is easily forced to consent to Billy's marriage to Constance, and humbly gives them his blessing.