Making Auntie Welcome

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Jack and Grace get word that Auntie is coming to make them a long visit. Jack decides that the best way to get rid of her is to play crazy. He practices on his wife with such excellent acting that the maid decides that he is trying to kill her and with the grocery boy run for the police. Then the Aunt comes and Jack chases her so far up the street he thinks she will never some back. Meantime Mrs. Smith, down the block, thinks her baby is sick and comes for Grace for advice. Grace goes with her to see the child and when the police arrest Jack it is decided that he has killed his wife and hidden the body. They find the Aunt waiting on the steps of the police station for a policemen to come along, and when they tell her about the murder she takes it out on the helpless Jack until Grace gets back from the neighbor's and comes to his rescue. It was a great little scheme, but it worked so well that Jack begs the policemen to kick him and feels better when they do.