1939-02 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

1939/02 – Cover illustrated by Horace Gaffron

Contents are as follows:

The Editor’s Page: In Our Own Back Yard

Fiction:

“The Knocking at the Door” — A Short Story by Sylvia Thompson and illustrated by Ray Prohaska

“By Reputation” — Part 2 of 2 — by Nelia Gardner White and illustrated by Tom Lovell

“Take a Number” — A Short Story by Sallie Belle Cox and illustrated by Bob Fawcett

“The Gay Old Dog” — Favorite Short Story of Charles Hanson Towne — by Edna Ferber and illustrated by Matt Clark

“American Legend” — Part 3 of 6 — by Pearl Buck and illustrated by Alfred Parker

“The Sound of Wings” — Short Story by Adela Rogers St. Johns and illustrated by Benton Clark

“Always the Three of Them” — A Short Story by Libbie Block and illustrated by Tran Mawicke

“The Town Cried Murder” — Part 6 of 6 — by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Stanley Parkhouse

“This Is Tomorrow” — A Short Story by Cora Jarrett and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer

Special Features:

Facts and Fiction by The Staff

The Strife of the Party by Grace P. Smith

They Used to Call It Petting by Marjorie Hillis

To Whom It May Concern by Robert Sherwood

Wasn’t the Regular Public School Good Enough for Us? by Maxine Davis

A Test for Femininity by Amram Scheinfeld

Imaginary Line by Margaret Lee Runbeck

Fashions:
Edited by Helen Koues

Mother, Why Can’t You Look Smart?

Turning One Dress Into Five

I Choose a Monk’s Robe

All You Need is a Skirt–Or Slacks

The Studio:

Something New About the House

News in Building and Decorating Circles

A Portfolio of Remodeling

You Don’t Have to Live in an Ugly House!

Closets Where None Were Before

You’d Never Know the Bathroom

There’s Magic in Remodeling

Granary Into Bunkroom

The Institute:
Edited by Katharine Fisher

How Good Cooks Are Made

First Aid for Ailing Finances

Budget Meals

What Every Consumer Needs

I’d Like to Know

Parties After New Year’s and Before Lent

Visits to the Grocer

The Beauty Clinic:
Edited by Ruth Murrin

Keep Your Beauty in Winter

Five Ways to Brighten Your Plumage

We Test and Tell

Good Housekeeping Bureau:

Dr. Eddy’s Question-Box

Counting Vitamins and Counting Costs by Dr. Walter H. Eddy

Babies, Needlework:

Eat Wisely for Your Baby’s Sake by Dr. Josephine H. Kenyon

Old-Fashioned Charm in Needlework by Anne Orr

For the Children

Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse – Society Dog Show – Features a 5-stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all on one page – Mickey Mouse is in 3 of the illustrations, Pluto is in all 5

Swinnerton’s Canyon Kiddies

Poems:

“Sword of Silence” by Dorothy Callaway

“Futility” by Elanor Graham

“The Dream Shines On” by Nancy Byrd Turner

“After All” by Anne L. New

“Silence” by Jane Sayre