- Jerry Ross, the daughter of an East Side homemaker, decides to sell newspapers to earn money. She disguises herself as a boy, goes to one of the busiest street corners in the city, and soon captures the bulk of the business.
- To earn her own living, Jerry Ross dresses as a boy and sells newspapers on the street corner. As the result of a chance meeting with Frank Girard, who is interested in the "Big Brother Movement," Jerry is invited to Girard's farm in the country and later is sent to a coeducational institution where she assumes the dress and manners of a girl once more. Time passes and Jerry, the girl graduate, goes to Mexico to join her benefactor who is surprised to find that his Jerry is really a girl. The opposition of Girard's sister determines Jerry to leave Girard and Mexico, but she gets no further than the railroad station, for Girard has fallen in love with her and prevents her from leaving.—Pamela Short
- Jerry Ross, bright, lovable daughter of the East Side tenements, is "little mother" and homemaker for her Uncle Dan Burke and his boys, Ben and Tony. Jerry is about fourteen and the boys are near the same age. Uncle Dan is a sailor, and during his long cruises the children have to shuffle for themselves. Jerry not only looks after the boys, but "little mothers" half the waifs of the tenement. The few pennies that support her charitable enterprise are earned by selling papers on the street. Even these are hard to gain and Jerry recognizes that in a rough and tumble struggle for life skirts are a handicap. So one day she trims her curls and sallies forth in the discarded vest and pants of Tony. This departure does not bring immediate success, as poor Jerry is chased from the street corners by jealous competitors. In a free for all fight with other newsies a window is smashed and Jerry is hauled up before the magistrate in the Children's Court. In this court Jerry is paroled in charge of a "Big Brother," Frank Girard, who promises to do all he can do to help the promising lad. The "big brother" lives up to his word, and takes Jerry to his country house and proceeds to make a man of her. Girard is an expert on mineralogy and is engaged in a series of experiments for extracting opals by a chemical process from their native rock. The work in the laboratory fascinates Jerry, who in her worship of the big brother does everything in her power to aid him in his research. And then a great blow falls. Girard is summoned to Mexico to take up his experimental work at the mines. He provides handsomely for Jerry by sending her, or him, as he supposes, to a leading co-educational college. Arriving at the college Jerry's well-kept secret leaks out and she is transferred to the girls' side of the institution. As years go on, Jerry, with the thought of the big brother ever present, works with all her might on special branches of mineralogy and obtains the highest honors in the gift of the college. In the meantime, Frank's work is being held up by successive failures in experiments at the mines, and hearing of Jerry's great achievement wires for his protégé to join him. Jerry sets out for Mexico and Frank, who is anxiously waiting, is greeted at the depot by a fascinating young girl, who explains to the bewildered big brother that she is not a little brother but a little sister. Frank's experiments have brought him to the verge of ruin and the story has to deal with the exploits of the watchful Jerry, who saves the his brother from ruin, discovers the long-lost formula for extracting the opals from the matrix, foils a burglar and a matrimonial adventuress and repays a debt of gratitude by entering into a life partnership with the big brother.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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