Life — July 5, 1923 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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# "Mrs. Pop's Diary" - Life Magazine Page This page features a sketch and satirical diary entry. The illustration shows two women in what appears to be a bedroom or dressing room, with one seated and another attending to her hair. The caption quotes dialogue about a man's fashion choice: "dark blue ties with white dots." "Mrs. Pop's Diary" is a humor column dated June 20th-30th. The entry mocks the author's experiences with a permanent wave hairstyle treatment, describing it sarcastically as torture ("infernal machine"). It also satirizes her husband's inattention and her own efforts to engage him in intellectual conversation about eighteenth-century history, which he ignores. The piece humorously contrasts her intellectual pretensions with domestic frustrations, typical of 1920s satirical women's humor focusing on marriage dynamics and gender roles.