Willoughby Hubbard is an author, with long hair and high brow. He is an unpractical man attempting to write practical advice for practical people. The picture shows how ingloriously he fails. His wife in an extremely practical person who has never been able to square herself with her relations for marrying the author. As the story opens he is carrying a package of proofs to his table and shuffles them out of order. Before he can get them rearranged in order, he hunts for a match, notices that the clock has stopped and starts to look for the key. While so engaged he speeds a plaster bust, the gift of his wife's Aunt Mildred, breaking it. His wife rushes in to have him button up her back and in an absent-minded way he hands her the broken bust, throwing her into a fit of tears. Just then a messenger arrives with a telegram informing them that Aunt Mildred is on the road, coming to spend the afternoon. The maid brings the glue to mend the bust, and hurly burly immediately begins to place the house in readiness for the aunt's visit. Then Willoughby spills the glue on his proof sheets, notices about the same time that the hat rack is leaning and needs repairs, starts to fix that, remembers the bust, goes back to it, goes away to wash his hands, forgets to do it, and starts struggling again with the hat rack. The entire reel is full of just such incidents, closely following another rendering the house a perfect mixture of excitement and disorder by the time Aunt Mildred arrives. Finally as the guests arrive and are shown into the library and the water is trickling down like rain, the irrepressible Willioughby caps the climax by remarking innocently "what a damp fall we're having." The whole ceiling is precipitated on their heads and the scene closes with Willoughby dispassionately on the cellar steps, and settling gradually down pulling the cellar door down above his head. - Moving Picture World, July 1, 1916