1940/01 -- Cover design: Painting by Jane Van Eyck - Border design by W.P. Schoonmaker

Contents as taken from the contents page and paging through the issue:

NOVEL COMPLETE IN THIS ISSUE:

  • Happiness by Mildred Cram and illustrated by Andrew Loomis

    • FICTION:

  • Steel Edges by Newlin B. Wildes and illustrated by Roy Spreter
  • She's So Embarrassing by Margaret Culkin Banning and illustrated by John Falter
  • Better to Dwell-- by Hugh MacNair Kahler and illustrated by Walter Biggs
  • If I Were a Boy Again by Dorothy Black
  • Another Woman -- Part 4 of 5 by Mary Hastings Bradley and illustrated by Andrew Loomis

    • SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • No Ivory Tower
  • Peace and Power by Dorothy Thompson
  • What Do the Women of America Think? -- About Psychic Phenomena
  • The First Fortnight by Rebecca West
  • Time of My Life -- Part 2 of 7 -- by Katharine Brush
  • Finished at Last by Henry F. Pringle is about GONE WITH THE WIND and cover 4 pages including 1 full page, 2 pages with 3/4 text and 1/4 ad, 1 page of half text, half ads. Opening page includes color photos of Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, and Leigh with Clark Gable
  • Your Chances of Making a Success of Marriage by Albert Edward Wiggins, D.Sc.

    • GENERAL FEATURES:

  • Look Before You Leap -- The Sub-Deb by Elizabeth Woodward
  • Fifty Years Ago in the Journal
  • Journal About Town
  • As the Twig Is Bent -- No. 9 by Leslie B. Hohman, M.D.
  • Birthmarks by Dr. Herman N. Bundesen
  • This Is a Thoughtless by Munro Leaf
  • Diary of Domesticity by Gladys Taber
  • Journal's End by Ann Batchelder
  • Reference Library

    • FASHION AND BEAUTY:

  • One Wonderful Night and You the Star by Wilhela Cushman
  • Gifts ... Gifts ... Gifts by Ruth Mary Packard
  • Earmarked -- Youth by Charlotte Johnson
  • There's a Beautiful Answer to Your Christmas Gift Problem by Louise Paine Benjamin
  • You Might Consider by Peggy Stevenson
  • Snow Belles by Peggy Stevenson
  • Show Counsel -- For Feet at Home by Wilhela Cushman
  • Like Mother--Like Daughter

    • FOOD AND HOMEMAKING:

  • Home for the Holidays by Ann Batchelder
  • Line a Day by Ann Batchelder
  • Recipes for the Holiday Hostess by Louella G. Shouer
  • Freedom of Choice by Grace L. Pennock

    • INTERIOR DECORATION AND GARDEN:

  • An All-Summer Perennial Path by Richard Pratt
  • It Came Upon the Midnight Clear by Henrietta Murdock
  • Indoor Spring by The Gardener's Assistant

    • POETRY:

  • Climbing by Helen Springer Moran
  • Adversity by Nina Gertrude Smith
  • Late Christmas by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
  • Daughter-in-Law by Grace Noll Crowell
  • Pair by Paul Engle
  • Matin by David Morton
  • The Birthday of the Child by Madeline Mason
  • 78 pages plus covers inside this oversized magazine