1941/09 - Cover illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

Contents are as follows:

FICTION:

  • "Wife of My Bosom" by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Bob Harris
  • "Just a Boy and Girl Thing" by Libbie Block and illustrated by Frederic Varady
  • "Dinny Comes to New York" by Laurie Hillyer and illustrated by Emery Clarke
  • "Town Girl" by Alice Lent Covert and illustrated by Barbara Schwinn
  • "One Wedding Bell" by Virginia Lee and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • "Meet Miss Boo" by Margaret Lee Runbeck and illustrated by Warren Baumgartner

    • NOVELETTE:

  • "Sister of the Bride" by Mary Hastings Bradley and illustrated by Ray Prohaska

    • SERIAL:

  • "Deep Down Inside Me" -- Part 3 of 4 -- by Reita Lambert and illustrated by Alfred Parker

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • Just Married by Mary Hammon features Deanna Durbin
  • Carry On by W.F. Bigelow
  • Ten to Start You Off by George Marek
  • Too Bright, Too Early by Kay Riley
  • Making Better Snapshots by Palmer Sims
  • What We Were Doing One War Ago by The Staff
  • A Home Chart on Medical Tests
  • What a Country School Teacher Does
  • How to Get Rid of a Man by Dorothy Walworth
  • An Open Letter to My Old Teacher by Alice Duer Miller
  • How to Bid a Slam by Easley Blackwood, Morrie Elis, Mrs. Ralph C. Young, and Robert McPherran
  • I Don't Know Why I'm Telling You All This by Katharine Brush
  • Remember the Race for Babies? by Margaret Chase Harriman
  • 50 Foreign Phrases You Should Know by Richard Duffy
  • To the Girls They've Kissed Good-bye by Henrietta Ripperger
  • FASHIONS:
    Edited by Martha Stout
  • THE STUDIO:
    Edited by Helen Koues
  • THE INSTITUTE:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher
  • THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin

    • FOR THE CHILDREN

  • Youmee by James Swinnerton
  • Truant Officer Donald - Walt Disney's Donald Duck - A 5-stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all on a single page
  • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:
  • BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:

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

  • "Birthday" by Elaine V. Emans
  • "Enigma" by W.E. Farbstein
  • "Refugee" by Bee Forsythe Wolverton
  • "Measure of Love" by Sara Van Alsyne Allen
  • "Now Blue October" by Robert Nathan
  • "Life Together" by Joyce Horner
  • "Lost, Strayed, or Stolen" by Arthur Guiterman
  • "Waste" by Ernestine Mercer
  • "Cricket in the House" by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
  • "Letter from London" by Marion Lipscomb Miller
  • "For a Female Cat Named Horace" by Frances Frost
  • "Still Water" by Polly Price Madden
  • "Letter of Condolence" by John Robert Quinn
  • "Waitress" by Elias Lieberman
  • "Autumn Whimsey" by Mary Tarbell