The Dill Pickle Bowling Club, of which saloonkeeper Gus is president, notifies its members that they are to bowl that night at the "Cheese Hill Inn," but Mr. Jarr fails to get his card. That same night, it happens that the "Inn" holds a dance contest, offering a cup to the best lady dancer. Clara Mudridge-Smith and her friends, the Misses Cackleberry, call and take Mrs. Jarr to the dance contest, dragging Mr. Jarr and old Jabez Smith along. Mr. Jarr is the only man of their party who can dance and he is kept busy. Gus Slavinsky and the other bowling-club members learn of Jarr's presence, and the poor fellow must do double duty: bowling and dancing. At home, the Jarrs' maid Gertrude entertains her fireman beau Claude while the Jarr children cut the expensive table cover to ribbons and spill ink all over the new carpet and themselves. The Dill Picklers and the Smith party get into an altercation and all are ejected from the place. Jarr then invites the whole crowd to his flat to wind up the evening. Gertrude and her beau beat it out the rear entrance to the prize dance. Mrs. Jarr finds Gertrude and her beau have drunk up all the beer in the house, but this is nothing to the sensation created by the appearance of Willy and Emma. After a few kind remarks on the "delightful evening " they have all spent, the guests depart. When Gertrude turns up next morn with the ladies' cup. Mrs. Jarr's wrath subsides and Gertrude is forgiven.