A wife who sympathizes with her hubby, who is afflicted with lumbago, discovers the newspaper advertisement of a doctor who offers to cure all such sufferers by means of an electric belt. To this doctor she goes, buys the belt and sews it in the lining of her husband’s overcoat. He now comes into the room, bent and with a pained expression; but he puts on the coat and is transformed into a prancing, jumping, lively individual. The belt seems to exercise a sort of amorous influence over him, for the first thing he does on reaching the street is to jump in between two old women and kiss them vigorously; after this he tries his affections on a pretty damsel and he lands in a police station. Here, as soon as he is stripped of his coat, he is once more a bent, sick man; but his coat is put on a rack and he is thrown into a cell. A lady now enters, apparently the sergeant’s friend, and the police officer taking a coat up from the rack accompanies her out. The belt has taken effect on him, for his first act on reaching the house is to kiss the maid. While he and his companions are in another room a tramp enters and steals the hat and coat. He, too, becomes seized with the fidgets and goes out on a kissing expedition, attacking several ladies with his caresses and finally making a public nuisance of himself by upsetting a push cart, the female proprietor of which he attempts to kiss. He is arrested and taken before a magistrate. As soon as he is stripped of the coat he becomes calm and normal, but he is placed under lock and key. The original owner of the coat is now brought from his cell, is given his coat and allowed to depart. On reaching the street he immediately sells it to a cast-off merchant, who also takes on the peculiar gait for which the belt is responsible. The cause of all the trouble is finally seen hanging outside of a second-hand clothing establishment, where it scares off pedestrians by its sudden violent convulsions.