Plot

While Rube reads the morning paper, his wife telephones the butcher and gets into a mushy flirtation over the wire. Rube grabs the phone, hears the butcher's voice and starts for the shop. The butcher and his wife are going through a love scene, when the butcher is interrupted by a telephone call from Rube's wife, and his wife flirts with the errand boy. Rube breaks in on the scene and takes the place of the errand boy in flirting with the butcher's wife. The butcher returns to find his wife gone with Rube, and gives chase with revolver in hand. Rube and the butcher's wife go to a café to indulge in a little liquid refreshment. Their party is interrupted by the entrance of the enraged butcher, and another chase takes place. The butcher goes to Rube's home to avenge himself for Rube's attentions to his (the butcher's) wife, and Rube's wife joins in the chase, which leads to the bathhouse at the beach. There are much diving and swimming, and a duel at the bottom of the tank. The argument between Rube and the butcher is settled by the intervention of the errand boy, and all is peace and happiness.—Moving Picture World synopsis