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This page contains a humorous diary entry by "Mrs. Pep" describing a marital spat in Rome, where her husband abandons her in a parked car to attend an unspecified event. The satire lies in her escalating fantasies of revenge—from dumping their Scotch to planning divorce—before he returns with such charming storytelling that she forgives him immediately. The piece mocks both marital dynamics and the fickleness of anger. The page is primarily advertising: Forhan's toothpaste (warning of pyorrhea as a threat to health), Murad cigarettes (using an "embarrassing moments" scenario about an overdrawn checking account), and Resinol ointment. These ads are typical 1920s marketing, targeting genteel anxieties about social embarrassment and health. The illustration shows a banker delivering awkward news to a client—the "solution" being a calming cigarette.

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Mrs. Pep’s Diary (Continued from page 1+) parking me on a side street in Rome, dashed across a nearby field to sec if he could catch a glimpse of the proceedings and remained away and hours. My choler unusually great, too, for there was nought to do but sit and plot re- venge upon him, and I did first think of emptying all the Scotch in the thermos down the sewer, even though I did work thereby a hardship to my self, but as the time drew out I did speculate on the speediest and most efficacious way of divoreing him, and had about decided to 4 Manning on my way to Paris when the wretch reappeared with such an ingratiating manner and so humor ous a recital of his visions that I could not but grant him unasked for giveness. out of sight for two ss Bishop Another rainy Lord’s Day, recalling what Mary Eyre once said to the effect that August 7th + 4 out of 5 Pay the Price Pyorthea is a ruthless enerpy thet strikes 4 per sons out of 5 past 4o (thousands younger). They pay the high price of neglect. Pyorrhea poison sweeps through the system, often causing rheu- matism, neuritis, anemia and facial disfigurement. Never pay this price. See your dentist at least twice a year and start using Forhan’s for the Gums, today. This dentifrice containing Forhan’s Pyorthea Liquid used by dentists everywhere if used in time, thwarts Pyorthea or checks its course. It firms gums and makes them strong. It protects teeth against acids which cause decay. It keeps them a lustrous white. Use Forhan’s morning and night. Teach your children to use it. They'll like the taste of | Fothan’s. It is health insurance. At all drug- gists—35¢ and 6oc Formula of R. J. Ferban, D. D. S Forhan Company, New York Forhanss for the gums MORE THAN A TOOTH PASTE «IT CHECKS PYORRHEA | EMBARRASSING When the banker informs y have overdraws be nonchalant .. light a MURAD © 1927, P. Laritlard Co., Kat. 1760 MOMENTS 1 that you our checking account... CIGARETTE MURAD For those who feel entitled to life’s better things persons who argue about the exist- ence of a Deity overlook some of the most obvious premises. No tennis, therefore, nor any outdoor activity but sitting about in pleasant : we told how > the standard of chool infant class soeve in a Sunday procession, with the quotation, “Be not afraid—it is I” to speak in her turn, but fear had so reome her that she did sque “Don't be seared, it's me!" instead, and I did urge her to capitalize the experience to the extent of a dollar by sending it to the Daily N embarrassing moment of her life This night our host did give a great house-warming for the old Irish tower which he has built on the high est of the surrounding hills, and in discussing methods of christening it, as the most I did suggest breaking a bottle of over the head of HL. Zog- » but H. rounds of econ champag bar who was the architec opposed the idea on omy. The looking strange company very merry, their modern at tire against so much stone, stained oak, old and had my silken sweater suddenly pewter and animal skins, changed to leather, 1 should not have astonished Baird Leonard, TOP THAT ITCHING You won't have to wait — relief follows the first comforting touch of Resinol comicbooks.com been much