What Katie Did (1912)

Katie Mooney comes home from school one afternoon just in time to hear the doctor say to her widowed mother that her infant baby sister must have better air and food or it will not live for long. Katie is very fond of the little mite and knows that her mother had a hard time to make a living for the three, so she determines that she will help to secure money enough to get the baby what is required. The doctor when he leaves playfully leaves a newspaper in her hand in which she sees an advertisement for messenger girls at a millinery shop. She secures the position and it is understood that she is to run errands after school hours. On one of her trips she makes the acquaintance of little Florence Chester, a small miss of about seven who has wandered away from her street and gets lost. Katie takes her home. She meets her several times afterward and a great friendship springs up between them. At the millinery shop, Katie being the youngest is more or less imposed upon by the other girls. They play pranks and tricks on her. She does not enter into their frolics. One day in delivering a parcel she meets Florence accidentally and as they are about to part a reckless boy on skates bowls Katie over. She falls, crushes the hat she is carrying and dislocates her arm. A friendly policeman takes her home. Florence finds out where she lives and brings her mother and father to meet her little benefactress and to find out the extent of her injuries. The meeting brings friends for Katie, her mother and her little sister and through Katie's kind act of taking Florence home when she was lost, brings her that which she strove for.