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Mr. and Mrs. Carthan, a wealthy couple, decide to visit their niece, Mrs. Jones, hoping at the same time to make the acquaintance of her husband, whom they have never met. They telegraph that they will come the following week. A short time...See moreMr. and Mrs. Carthan, a wealthy couple, decide to visit their niece, Mrs. Jones, hoping at the same time to make the acquaintance of her husband, whom they have never met. They telegraph that they will come the following week. A short time after the message leaves, Mr. Carthan finds he will be unable to go the following week, owing to a business engagement, so they decide to leave at once. The Joneses are all worked up over the telegram, and, seeing their house in disorder, start to fix it. When the Carthans arrive they find Mr. Jones busy with an apron tied around him and they at once mistake him for the butler. They order him to take their things and before he can recover from the shock he has done as they told him. The wife, not wishing to tell her relatives that the butler is her husband, and wishing to keep up the deception, insists that Jones play the part of butler while the Carthans remain. She tells her relations that her husband is away on a business trip. Jones quite forgets that he is the butler and sits down with the visitors to enjoy the conversation. He is soon told to leave the room. He decides to throw up the job and put on his good clothes. He is caught in the act of dressing by Mr. Carthan, who calls him to account for trying on his master's clothes. He proves to be a very awkward butler, as he spills the soup on Mr. Carthan's waistcoat. Mr. Carthan demands that he be discharged and Mrs. Jones, unable to do anything else, bids the butler leave the house. He goes to the home of a friend and finally decides he will get his own clothes. He sends a note to his wife bidding her throw a suitcase full of his clothes out of the window. She does this and he gets the suitcase, which he takes to his friend's home, where he dons some of the garments and shaves off his mustache. He then returns home and Mrs. Jones introduces her husband to the Carthans, who although very glad to meet him, cannot help commenting on his likeness to the discharged butler. Although his wife is at first distressed over the shaving of her husband's mustache, when he reminds her of the predicament she put him in, she laughs and embraces him. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less