It also features Andrew Arbuckle, Carl Stockdale, Allan Forrest, Emma Kluge, and Margaret Shelby, who is Minter's older sister.

[1][2] As described in various film magazine reviews,[3][4][5][6] after years away at a fashionable boarding school in the East, Peggy (Minter) decides to surprise her father (Arbuckle) one summer by taking a trip back home.

She has assumed from her lavish education that her father is a prosperous and successful merchant; she is shocked to find him the owner of a run-down country store that barely turns a profit.

Gardiner invites guests to visit, a wealthy woman (Kluge) and her daughter Maude (Shelby), whom he considers to be a more suitable match for his son.

With no alternative if he wants to feed his guests, Roland Gardiner goes to Peggy's store for provisions, where he finds his son happily sweeping the floor in exchange for a hot breakfast.