The film begins with Ida running away from her boarding school for girls to rejoin her mother (played by Marjorie Rambeau), an actress in a New York theatre. But her Ma wants her to be more respectable, so sends her to her live with her own sister (Aunt Ida), a retired actress of modest means, in a small town. Ida loves her little dog, who is taken away from her in the sleeping car on the train by the conductor and put into the baggage car, from which he leaps and is lost. This results in Ida arriving at the town and leaving the train in floods of tears, sobbing 'I miss my Booboo'.
Unknown to her, the same train has brought the coffin of the black sheep of the town's leading family who has just died of drink and who was known for his amours. A newspaper man (played by Richard Arlen) reports a story on the front page of the local paper named The Clarion saying that Ida was the dead man's mistress and her Booboo was the dead man (as he is unaware of the fact that Booboo was really a dog). This leads to a series of dramatic and hysterical events, where the town's most prestigious and domineering rich family commences a campaign of threats and intimidation against the teenaged Ida, saying they will sue her and demanding that she leave town at once.
The newspaper man realizes something is amiss, and begins to fall for Ida, so that a romance blossoms...
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