- Dr. Manning cherishes Gloriana, his newly-adopted young daughter, but Mrs. Manning, who directs overseas charity projects, has as little concern for Gloriana as she does for the poverty-stricken people in her own city. After listening to her new mother philosophize about the importance of charity, Gloriana takes some money from Mrs. Manning's desk and gives it to Miriam, her impoverished governess. Mrs. Manning at first accuses Miriam of theft, but when Gloriana confesses, Mrs. Manning suddenly realizes that she has been blind to the poverty that surrounds her, and she vows to start devoting her energy into helping those who are closer to home.—Pamela Short
- Gloriana, a child of the stage, supports her mother while her father is in the trenches "somewhere in France." One day while Gloriana is giving her performance, a cable is handed to the mother informing her that the husband and father has been killed. The shock is more than the woman's weak heart can resist. There is a call for a physician from the audience. Dr. Manning is the physician who goes to the aid of the stricken woman. Gloriana's mother, fatally stricken, begs Dr. Manning to promise that he will see that the little girl is protected through life. The doctor promises and the woman expires. Turning from the death scene, Dr. Manning discovers that his little boy, whom he had taken to the show, and Gloriana have already become friends, and when the little boy adds his request that Gloriana may go home with them. Dr. Manning consents. The little girl is finally adopted by Dr. Manning. Mrs. Manning is not at all pleased with the arrangement, although Gloriana's ways and cleverness soon win the woman's heart. Mrs. Manning is an aristocrat with a hobby for charitable work, but in foreign countries. She is an ardent worker in the cause of suspenders for Fiji islanders, but fails to see the need of aid and clothing for the poor of her own city. Gloriana has taken much concern in Mrs. Manning's charity. The child has found plenty of subjects for her charity, although her deeds have all been in small measure because of her limited means. But when, one day, she finds an especially needy case, she sets about finding the way. Her course is to rob Mrs. Manning's writing desk of a considerable amount of money the woman had collected for her foreign charities. When the robbery is discovered and the servants are all called in and questioned or accused. Gloriana is moved to compassion. She explains that the money has been stolen by a man who has compelled Gloriana, who witnessed the act, to keep silent under pain of death. This story sounds very well, as Gloriana rattles it off, but in getting down to details the child becomes entangled in her statements and finally confesses that she has herself stolen the money and invented the burglar tale. Gloriana tells that she has spent the money in charity, basing her act upon a remark Mrs. Manning had made in a speech, and that she thought the poor who surrounded her need help more than the foreigners. Mrs. Manning sees the light and Gloriana has been the cause of an awakening for the aristocratic woman with her haughty theories on charity.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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