John's breakfast is late on account of a flirtation between the cook and the iceman. John is angry and the cook leaves. John goes to business without his breakfast, while John's wife decides to try her hand at preparing lunch. When John goes home for lunch he finds safety pins in his soup, chicken that requires a steam saw to cut it, and the result is "a quarrel with Mary," who decides to go home to mother. Mary misses her train, returns home and locks herself in her room. John comes home late in the evening, finds the house apparently empty and decides to cook himself a little supper. Among other things, he forgets to turn off the faucet in the kitchen sink and the result is when he goes to bed the kitchen is flooded, and the cook, who returns late at night, after a pleasant day's vacation, and finding the door locked, decides to enter through the kitchen window. After much aquatics, she is finally rescued from the depths of the kitchen ocean by John and forgiven after promising never to flirt with the iceman in the morning before breakfast.
—Moving Picture World synopsis