1940/12 - Cover illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

Contents are as follows:

FICTION:

  • "For I Am Sick of Love" by Margaret Weymouth Jackson and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • "Be Kind to Me" by Nelia Gardner White and illustrated by Bob Harris
  • "The Sealskin Coat" by Elisabeth Stancy Payne and illustrated by Harry Anderson
  • "Hotel Child" by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • "Mr. and Mrs. Dumb" by Richard Sherman and illustrated by Geoffrey Biggs
  • "Whisper of Spring" by Margaret Cousins and illustrated by Earl Cordrey

    • SERIALS:

  • "Mrs. Fane Comes of Age" -- Part 1 of a Serial -- by Libbie Block and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • "The Valorous Years" -- Part 4 of 6 -- by A.J. Cronin and illustrated by John Falter
  • "I Wanted to Murder" -- Part 6 of 6 -- by Clarissa Fairchild Cushman and illustrated by Nicholas Riley

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • Christmas, 1940 by W.F. Bigelow
  • Town Hall by The Editors
  • Enter, with Flourish by Henrietta Ripperger
  • Making Better Snapshots by Palmer Sims
  • Recipes for Human Nature -- Number Three by Paul Grabbe
  • No End of Spirit by Kay Riley
  • Hoofbeats on a Bridge by Alexander Woollcott
  • They Who Are Not Yet Born by Pearl S. Buck
  • Before You Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler
  • How to Understand the News by Quincy Howe
  • What I Like About the American Girl by Jon Whitcomb
  • Music for Johnny (And Mary Too) by George Marek
  • A Memory by I.A.R. Wylie
  • How to Keep a Husband and a Job by John Kobler
  • THE INSTITUTE:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher
  • THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin
  • THE STUDIO:
    Edited by Helen Koues
  • FASHIONS:
    Edited by Martha Stout
  • BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:
  • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:

    • FOR THE CHILDREN

  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton
  • Mickey Mouse - Walt Disney's - A single page with large image of Mickey Mouse with the banner "Good Housekeeping Toy FestivalL

    • BETWEEN THE BOOK ENDS - POETRY:
    Conducted by Ted Malone

  • "Christmas Is Coming" by Sara Henderson Hay
  • "Meritorious" by Jr. Campbell
  • "Lonely Road" by Gerald Raftery
  • "Silver Swans" by Eunice Mildred LonCoske
  • "The Giant-Killer" by Berton Braley
  • "First Christmas Lullaby" by Frances Frost
  • "Dilettante" by E.M. Wilkins
  • "Talking With You Again" by Dorothy Glazer
  • "Integrity" by Ernestine Mercer