1939/12 - Cover illustrated by Horace Gaffron

Contents are as follows:

  • The Editor's Page: In the Name of Peace

    • Fiction:

  • "Gone Is the Phoenix" -- Part 1 of 2 -- by Nelia Gardner White and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • "The Brood" by Howard Fast and illustrated by Benton Clark
  • "Donder, Blitzen and Boppy" by Edmund Ware and illustrated by Harry Anderson
  • "A Few for Dinner" by Margaret Culkin Banning and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • "High Noon" -- Part 3 of 5 -- by Clara Wallace Overton and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb (this isn't a Western)
  • "Its Absurd, Miss Bugle" by Leslie Gordon Barnard and illustrated by Mortimer Wilson
  • "One Day Late" by Dorothy Canfield and illustrated by Hy Rubin
  • "Road to Folly" -- Part 4 of 5 -- by Leslie Ford and illustrated by John Alan Maxwell

    • Special Articles:

  • A Christmas Message to Youth by Arhtur H. Compton
  • The Movie Forum by Mary Hamman
  • Facts and Fiction by The Staff
  • Does Santa Claus Believe in You? by Grace P. Smith

  • Ray Prohaska
  • Marriage in the Making by Helen Welshimer
  • The Perennial Plague by Maxine Davis is about respiratory diseases
  • Can You Remember? by Selma Robinson
  • Trade Winds by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Stevan Dohanos
  • Parties for Christmas by Henrietta Ripperger

    • The Studio:
    Edited by Helen Koues

  • Decorating the House for Christmas

  • Let's Give a Christmas Gift to the House!
  • Surprise!
  • How to Wrap Your Gifts
  • Gifts from the Gimbel-Good Housekeeping House

    • The Beauty Clinic:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin

  • Cosmetics for Christmas
  • Perfume for a Star - With full-page color photo of Madeleine Carroll
  • We Test and Tell

    • The Institute:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher

  • Verifying Santa Claus
  • Christmas Comes on Monday
  • Delicious December Dishes
  • Chrsitmas Gifts That Ring the Bell
  • Christmas Dinners Fitted to Kitchen or Kitchenette
  • Better Lighting
  • Visits to the Grocer

    • Fashions:
    Edited by Martha Stout

  • Letter from Lydia
  • Full of Presents
  • Horns of Plenty
  • Under Electric Lights
  • Christmas Means Parties
  • Last-Minute Presents
  • Two Dresses from One Pattern
  • Christmas Cheer

    • Good Housekeeping Bureau:

  • Grandfather Was Right by Dr. Walter H. Eddy
  • Dr. Eddy's Question-Box

    • Babies, Needlework:

  • Everybody Loves a Gift That Was Made By You by Anne Orr
  • If Your Child Won't Eat by Dr. Josephine H. Kenyon

    • For the Children

  • Donald's Date - Walt Disney's Donald Duck - A single page with a poem and 5 color illustrations
  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton

    • Poems:

  • "Wild Sage" by Dorothy Callaway
  • "We Have Seen His Star...And Are Come" by Nancy Byrd Turner
  • "The Keeper of the Inn" by Charles Hanson Towne
  • "Tree of Christmas" by Daniel Henderson
  • "Understanding" by Helen Loomis Linham
  • "So Beautiful the Starlight Is" by Elaine V. Emans
  • "Of Battles" by Archibald Rutledge