Mrs. Thurlow Finch, trying to make pin money by selling vacuum cleaners on commission, shocks one of her old-maid neighbors in demonstrating the apparatus by pulling off the dress of her client. Her husband, tiring of his brother-in-law's laziness, tries to hypnotize him into working as a paper-hanger. The brother-in-law humors Thurlow by pretending to be mesmerized. He and Thurlow spend an entire day working on the living room of the Finch home. After many mishaps they get one wall papered, but it is done in such bad shape they have to call in a professional paper-hanger. Finally Thurlow and his helper improve to such an extent that they receive about half-a-dozen orders every day.
—Universal Weekly, August 26, 1922