Plot Summary:Although hardly settled in Harlem, nor thoroughly conversant with the joys of living there, Mrs. Jarr sets the whole Jarr Family agog by starting house-cleaning. This is not a pleasant occupation, nor conducive to quiet and peace, as everyone knows, but the Jarrs seem to be particularly unfortunate in having things go wrong. Mr. Jarr, pushing the grand piano around, slips on the newly-scrubbed floor and nearly breaks his neck, but as if their troubles were not enough. Mrs. Jarr's mother visits them from Brooklyn, to help them \"get nicely settled.\" She gets them nicely settled, with a vengeance. Mother-in-law is a brisk, vixenish woman. Trouble starts, and after a free-for-all wordy war. Jarr slams on his hat and goes out, while Mrs. Jarr weeps and mother comforts her by calling Mr. Jarr a wretch and a brute. Finding people in neighboring apartments enjoying the Jarrs with the aid of opera glasses, she hangs up some of Mr. Jarr's nether garments to curtain the windows. Meanwhile, Jarr is inveigled by Rangle and some of his friends into participating in a turkey raffle at Gus's place on the corner. He wins the turkey, and Gus, greatly chagrined, plays a low-down trick on Jarr by substituting a \"dummy\" turkey in place of the real bird. Returning, as he thinks, with the prize, Jarr finds his militant mother-in-law has nailed up the front door, so he climbs the fire-escape. On the way he creates havoc among the scattered debris, is shot at for a burglar and has a general hard time getting into his domicile. Proudly exhibiting his \"prize\" as a peace offering, Jarr is totally crushed when mother-in-law discloses the \"mock turk,\" but Mrs. Jarr's sympathies are aroused, and her exhibition of tenderness so enrages mother that she packs up and goes home that evening.