[1] This short begins with Mabel toiling in the kitchen, handwashing clothes while her shiftless husband lies in bed in the adjacent room and refuses to assist her.
Next door it is wash day too for Fatty, who glumly scrubs clothes as his wife, like Mabel's spouse, carps at him from the bedroom and is unwilling to lend a hand.
As he helps her wring a garment, the house smock worn by Mabel is caught between the rollers of Fatty's drying tub and is nearly pulled from her body.
Fatty's wife falls asleep on a bench as he reads to her from the January 1915 Blue Book magazine.
Mabel sees Fatty and after they share complaints about their spouses, the two go to a nearby open-air cafe for refreshments.