This subject illustrates the adventures and misadventures of the modern mother, as she might be “in the sweet bye and bye.” A home scene shows a man trying to rock a baby to sleep; he does not succeed, and the wife, who is doing some writing, is much provoked and orders father and child out of the room. Soon after the mother puts on her hat and saunters off down the street with a lot of children in her wake. At the corner she wishes to make a speech and mounts a donkey cart, from which she is rudely precipitated by the upsetting of the cart. Procuring a little stool, she makes a further effort at another place, but the interference is too great and she moves along to another point of vantage. From here the sight of a bovine causes her to take flight and seek refuge by climbing a ladder to the scaffold of a new building. While there the boys remove the ladder, and she is obliged to climb down the rough scantlings, which she does very awkwardly. When she comes down she drops into a tub of water just as her husband comes upon her with the empty carriage. Turning the vehicle over to the wife he admonishes her, and she is now glad to resume the feminine duties and leave the man to his own.