Peter's Relations (1914)

Peter's mother-in-law, Mrs. Fixit, makes an uninvited appearance at his country house, and immediately begins to rearrange things so rapidly that when he returns from the city in the evening he does not know the place. His wife, thoroughly under the dominion of her mother, apologizes for her invasion, but does not appear to change things. The couple are put off in a small side-room to spend the night and the cook is called in to help rearrange the apartment for some comfort. Everything is upside down and everything goes wrong. Peter sits upon and crushes his wife's best hat; the window curtain blows in and wakes them up every few minutes, and Mother-in-Law Fixit hears so much noise she thinks the house is haunted. The only one who sleeps is the cook, for she is so tired she can do that standing. The result of it all is that nobody gets any sleep and they wake up in the morning busily facing a new world of comic troubles.

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