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This page contains a satirical advice column and serialized diary entry typical of *Life* magazine's humor. **"Our Headache Corner"** is a mock medical advice section edited by "Henry Headache." It satirizes both habitual complainers (those with "superiority complexes") and patent medicine advertising. The jokes suggest headache sufferers are needlessly aging themselves, then pivot to promote "Kohler-Antidote"—a real over-the-counter remedy—with mock-heroic language ("relief is at hand!"). The satire targets two targets: the self-pitying headache prone and the snake-oil advertising industry itself. **Mrs. Pep's Diary** continues a serialized domestic narrative. The diarist discusses Gene Tunney (a famous boxer of the 1920s), attends "Stella Dallas" (a popular weepy film), and reflects on Queen Marie's fifty trunks while organizing her own appointment book. The humor lies in the diarist's pretentious literary references (Rhodes scholars, Apollo Belvedere, John Erskine) applied to mundane domestic complaints—satire of educated women's aspirations meeting ordinary bourgeois reality.

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Our Headache Corner Edited exclusively for those who are occasionally afflict- ed with headaches, They are our best people, the ones with the superiority complex. Edited by HENRY HEADACHE A woman is as old as she looks, but nowadays no woman looks over 29 except when she has a headache. .. And then she feels like 92. eee Men and women who have head- aches habitually, age needlessly, suffer needlessly— eee They have a rotten time. Espe- ake matters haha a a Pies ee and weakened feeling, ee But, hark, relief is at hand! (Bugles and drums are heard off- stage.) see Habitual as well as occasional headache-sufferers will be glad to know of a safe, balanced pre- scription— *- One that leaves you “feeling fine.” eee For over 35 years, all druggists have sold Kohler-Antidote. Attractive and comfortable accommoda- tions are offered on the splendid steamers Resotute, Rettance, Hamaurc (new), Deurscutanp and Atsert Batu. Also on the oneclass Cabin steamers Creve- LAND, Tuurinota and Westenatia. World famous cuisine and service. ©@Aound nworld 138 day Cruise—25 Countries S.S. RESOLUTE Rates—$2000 and up Leaving New York, JAN. 6, 1927 \Gio the West Indies on the S.S, RELIANCE DEC. 18—18 days JAN. 9—18 days JAN. 26—27 days FEB. 26—27 days MARCH 30—15 days Rates $200 and $300and up. HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE UNITED AMERICAN LINES, INC. ‘local steamship ond toarist agents “trip through Italy. Life Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 12) afternoon, and all the talk was of fighting, because of to-night’s bout, and I did hear this and that about the more gentle accomplishments of Gene Tunney until my mental im- age of him was a composite of a Rhodes scholar, Mr. Frank Crown- inshield and the Apollo Belvedere. But their discourse did hold small interest for me, I having decided that the world was too full of a number of things other than pugi- lism on the morning when I did read that Jack Dempsey had been knocked clean out of the ring by Firpo and yet had won the fight After dining, to see “Stella Dallas’ again, like a fool, for I might have known it would bring me to tears, and when Stella bade Laurel good- by at the train, I was at some pains not to sob aloud. October The telephone a-ringing h early, and it was Bessie 13t Rathbone in shop and luncheon, whi quick wit to refuse, thank God, for Bessie always patronizes tearooms, institutions with which I have no patience, albeit Sam's accusation that my objection to an eating place whose waiters are not men amounts to a Freudian complex is nothing but more of his nonsense... .Read- ing in the public prints how Queen Marie is traveling towards us with fifty trunks, I was overcome with pity for the poor woman, mindful of how even the responsibility of one trunk drives me well-nigh to dis- traction, and remembering how twelve pieces of hand-luggage over- shadowed most of the beauty of one And what even a Queen should be doing with so many boxes in this day of light ap- parel I know not, unless she be trying her luck as a traveling sales- woman....Most of the day gone at petty tasks, straightening out my engagement book, etc., the time of the year having come when I must write down our appointments if I am to remember them accurately, and then fell a-reading of John Erskine’s new book about Galahad, and it set me a-thinking of how many of our own manners and con- ventions are the direct descendants of chivalry, and not entirely to the modern woman’s good fortune, neither, the apparently divine right of a man to the aisle seat in a theatre never having met with much favor from me. 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