Mr. Jarr and Love's Young Dream
When Jack Silver, Jarr's young bachelor friend, comes into a big fortune the Cackleberry girls, visiting the Jarrs, at once draw lots to see who shall set their cap for the suddenly wealthy young man whom they had previously snubbed because he was poor. Gladys wins and Jack falls an easy victim to her matrimonial wiles. Irene becomes jealous of her sister's good fortune and intermingles a few sprays of poison ivy in the bunch of beautiful roses she sends her for the wedding. The box of roses is delivered to Mr. Jarr, who takes the expressman around to Gus's place, where he stands a treat. The box lid comes off and Gus and his friends all take long whiffs of the flowers and, of course, incidentally come in contact with the poison ivy. The same thing happens at home. The day of the wedding Mr. Pinkfingers, Jack's best man, has a dreadful case of "nerves" when he discovers the groom is sick abed with the poison, and rushing over to the Jarrs finds everybody except Mrs. Jarr has fallen victim to the mysterious disease. Gus and the bunch, their faces and hands swollen all out of proportion, start on a punitive expedition to Jarr's flat, for they think he has played a practical joke on them, but his appearance convinces them he is innocent. Irene arrives and is forced to confess her guilt. The roses and ivy are thrown out the window, landing on the head of Jabez Smith, Jarr's boss, and his fair young bride, Clara Mudridgc-Smith. The bunch just leaving Jarr's home see the whole Smith party smelling the roses, and return home in unholy glee at the thought that "there will be others."
