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1938-07 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

1938/07 – Cover illustrated by Horace Gaffron

Contents are as follows:

  • The Editor’s Page: Have Faith in America

    • Fiction:

  • “Fourteenth Summer” – A Short Story by Elizabeth Davis and illustrated by Maurice L. Bower
  • “Something That Happened on a Ship” — A Short Story by Alec Waugh and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • “The Eighth Passenger” – Part 2 of 3 by Edison Marshall and illustrated by John Fulton
  • “By Right of Purchase” – A Short Story by I.A.R. Wylie and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “Next to My Heart” — Part 3 of 6 — by Helen Topping Miller and illustrated by Tom Webb
  • “Last Day in Court” — A Short Story by Freeman Tilden and illustrated by Dean Cornwell
  • “The Son of Mama ‘Posito” — A Short Story by Maxwell Aley and illustrated by Robert W. Crowther

    • Special Articles:

  • Facts and Fiction by Alice Booth
  • Are You a Picnic Pest? by Grace P. Smith
  • New Rules for Divorce Collectors by Gretta Palmer and illustrated by John R. Holmgren
  • Should Women Take Over the World? by Inez Haynes Irwin
  • It Pays to Be Happily Married by Stanley G. Dickinson
  • Pitfalls for the Pretty by Majorie Hillis
  • What Kind of Life Insurance Should I Buy? by Elizabeth Frazer

    • The Studio:

  • 1938 Modern Building Features
  • In the Mexican Manner
  • Lighting the Garden
  • New Trends in Hawaii
  • A Garden In Your Back Yard
  • What About Having?

    • Fashions:

  • Hollywood Personalities with color photo of Gladys Swarthout

  • Summer Pickups
  • Summer Hostess – Summer Guest
  • The Art of Looking Cool
  • The Sewing Room – Five-in-One Slacks
  • Vacation Clothes We Will Buy for You

    • The Institute:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher

  • Parties for the Fourth – And So Forth
  • The A B C of Keeping Cool
  • Yours for Better Iced Tea and Coffee
  • Visits to the Grocer
  • –From the Desk of Katharine Fisher
  • Improper Meals

    • The Beauty Clinic:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin

  • Lovely to Look At
  • The Beauty Clinic

    • Good Housekeeping Bureau:

  • Nature Gives Us Sunlight–Let’s Use It by Dr. Walter H. Eddy
  • Dr. Eddy’s Question-Box

    • Babies, Needlework, Etc.:

  • “Sleep, My Little One, Sleep” by Dr. Josephine H. Kenyon
  • Mud-Pie Party by Elaine
  • Easy to Make by Anne Orr

    • For the Children

  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton
  • Donald’s Golf Game – Walt Disney’s Donald Duck – A 5 stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all on a single page, Donald Duck featured in 4 of the illustrations, Goofy in 3 of them

    • Poems:

  • “Roads” by Strickland Gillialan
  • “Prayer Power” by Grace Noll Crowell
  • “Paradox” by Chesta Holt Fulmer
  • “Echoes” by Helan Welshimer
  • “Aftermath” by Billy B. Cooper