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1931-12 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

1931/12 – Cover illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith

Contents are as follows:

  • The Editor’s Page
  • Three Letters

    • Fiction:

  • “Christmas” – A Short Story by Coningsby Dawson and illustrated by N.C. Wyeth — large illustration takes up part of two facing pages, it’s about 9″ wide across the two pages and 10″ high at its peak. Features an image of Jesus Christ speaking to a group of mostly children. (There’s a subscription card lodged right in between the two pages, which you’d probably have to remove to enjoy this illustration properly).
  • “Young Mother Hubbard” — A Serial by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • “The Condor” — A Short Story by Emma-Lindsay Squier and illustrated by James E. Allen
  • “Five Little Houses Standing in a Row” — A Short Story by Rebecca Hooper Eastman and illustrated by James and Charlotte Billmyer
  • “The Million Dollar Hairpin” — A Short Story by Gerald Mygatt and illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg
  • “From Whence Cometh My Help” — A Short Story by Achmed Abdullah and illustrated by Elbert McGran Jackson
  • “Lord of Lonely Valley” — A Serial by Peter B. Kyne and illustrated by Thomas Webb
  • “The Red Glass Bowl” — A Short Story by Margaret Weymouth Jackson and illustrated by Frances Tipton Hunter

    • Special Articles:

  • Mothers Are Still Important by William L. Stidger with photos of the following personalities with their mothers: Ed Wynn – Charlie Chaplin – Elsie Janis – Jack Dempsey – Maurice Chevalier
  • An Adventure in Solitude by Samuel Scoville Jr. and illustrated by Nelson Grofe about the Okefenokee Swamp
  • Cecilia Beaux by Alice Booth with self-portrait by Cecilia Beaux
  • The Land of the Midnight Sun by Frances Parkinson Keyes
  • Uncle Jaggers by James C. Derieux
  • Say “Merry Christmas” With a Book by Emily Newell Blair
  • Mothers and Music Lessons by Margaret Mohler Carlson

    • Good Housekeeping studio of Architecture and Furnishings:

  • A Georgian House of Fine Proportions from Ralph Harrington Doane, Architect
  • The Stuff Your House Is Made of–Fireplaces by Matlack Price
  • An Eighteenth-Century Living Room
  • The Making of a Colonial Room

    • Good Housekeeping Institute:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher

  • Tomorrow Is Christmas!
  • Stars in Foods
  • Christmas Dinner
  • Bright Silver
  • Speaking of Stuffing

    • Bureau of Foods, Sanitation, and Health:

  • What You Eat May Keep That Cold Away by Dr. Walter H. Eddy

    • Special Service Features:

  • Toys, Pillows, and Table Covers to Make by Anne Orr
  • Health and Beauty by Ruth Murrin
  • Dr. Eddy’s Question Box
  • The Baby Sits Alone by Dr. Josephine H. Kenyon
  • A Savings Bank Suggests Investments by Ruth Boyle
  • The Institute Forum

    • Poems:

  • “The Three Kings’ Road” by Anna Blake Mezquida with decoration by Howard R. Cort
  • “Candles” by Clara Hood Rugel
  • “Longing” by Edith Tatum
  • “Thus” by Fredericka Blankner

    • Fashions:
    Edited by Helen Koues

  • Furs and Ruffles in French Fashions
  • Gift With a National Trade-Mark
  • Let Our Shopping Service Buy for You in New York
  • Party Frocks for the Christmas Season
  • Our Christmas Shopping Service — Gifts for Every One at Prices Hard to Beat
  • Christmas Gifts from Toyland
  • Useful and Comical–Gifts Economical