Harry and Carrie are married. Carrie’s mother pays them a visit. She and Harry do not get along together. Harry is smoking a cigar when Ma enters the room. She immediately takes the cigar from him and makes him throw same out of the window, at the same time forbidding him to smoke in the house again. Harry’s father, who has never met his wife, decides to pay the happy couple a visit. He arrives, and, as luck would have, they are not home. Mother being in sole possession of the house, Father mistakes Carrie’s mother for his wife and upon entering hugs and kisses her. She repulses him and slaps his face. Carrie and Harry come home and find Ma indignant in her room. Carrie explains that the man is Harry’s father. Mother comes into the parlor, and finding father smoking, tries the same game on him that worked so well on Harry. However, she finds a tartar in the old man, and admits inwardly that she has met her match. However, the young couple decide to put up a game on them. They write letters, one signing Pa’s name, in which he writes that he loves Carrie’s Ma, and vice versa. They leave these letters where the couple can find the ones intended for them, which they do. The old fellow immediately becomes frisky and the escapade winds up with them marrying, and Harry and Carrie giving them a great send-off.