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1940-09 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

1940/09 – Cover illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

Contents are as follows:

Fiction:

  • “The Valorous Years” — Part 1 of 6 — by A.J. Cronin and illustrated by John Falter
  • “The First Formal” by Margaret Cousins and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • “Take the Day” by Mary Hastings Bradley and illustrated by Alfred Parker

  • “No Milk Till Further Notice” by Edmund Ware and illustrated by Bob Harris
  • “I Wanted to Murder” — Part 3 of 6 — by Clarissa Fairchild Cushman and illustrated by Nicholas Riley
  • “The Room” by Faith Baldwin
  • “The Blazing Star” by MacKinlay Kantor and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “Farewell Without Regret” — Part 5 of 5 — by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger and illustrated by Tom Lovell

    • Special Articles:

  • “Our Own Worst Enemy” by W.F. Bigelow
  • Town Hall by The Editors
  • Will Any Buddy Do? by Henrietta Ripperger
  • The Stars Come Down to Earth by Mary Hamman
  • Music at Home by George Marek
  • No Class in the Room by Kay Riley
  • Wanted–All Women by Margaret Culkin Banning
  • Most Women Can Have Babies by Maxine Davis
  • To Simon, with Love, 1940
  • The Etiquette of Smoking by Emily Post – 1 page
  • We Must Learn Spanish and Portuguese Now — An Editorial
  • I’m Fat, and I Like It by Lila Austin
  • Two Tests for You
  • Maria and the State of the World by Irwin Edman

    • Special Features:

  • Do You Know Someone Who Is Lost Abroad? by Mona Gardner
  • The Use and Abuse of Dictionaries by Mortimer J. Adler
  • What Would You Have Done? by Ray W. Sherman
  • How to Look After a Lecturer by Gretta Palmer
  • As We Live and Breathe by Donald Culross Peattie

  • We Still Say It by Leonarda Visconti

    • The Institute:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher

  • Suppose Your Food Budget Were Cut in Half
  • More Food for the Same Money
  • Vacuum Cleaners–What They Can Do for You
  • Hot Rolls, Easy to Make and Bake
  • Can You Answer These Questions?
  • Why Can’t We Have Coffee Like This at Home?
  • Folks with Food
  • Measurement or Age?
  • Cook and Waitress, Too–But How?

    • The Beauty Clinic:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin

  • What Should Your Measurements Be?
  • Mind Your Make-Up Manners
  • How Keen Is Your Make-Up Eye?
  • Five Ways to Keep your Clothes Fresh
  • Why Don’t You?
  • How to Set Your Hair

    • Fashions:
    Edited by Martha Stout

  • And They’re All Eight Years Old!
  • Grade-School Glamour
  • A+ for Sweaters, Skirts, Blouses, Jumpers
  • High-School Hoopla!
  • Shoe Story
  • Clothes That America Can Wear
  • Fun to Fasten–and They Stay Fastened
  • Young Underpinnings
  • Sew a Fine Seam

  • For Young Hands
  • What Is Your Fashion I.Q.?
  • For Young Feet

    • The Studio:
    Edited by Helen Koues

  • Young Couple Starts Out
  • A Small Apartment, on Exhibition in New York
  • Tables for Hobbies
  • Wall Coverings Are So Versatile
  • How Up-to-Date Are You?
  • How to make Homemade Curtains Look Professional
  • The Master Mechanic

    • Babies, Needlework:

  • Make Your Invitations Inviting by DorothY Wagner
  • You Child’s First Teeth by Dr. Josephine H. Kenyon

    • Good Housekeeping Bureau:

  • Can You See in the Dark? by Dr. Walter H. Eddy
  • Dr. Eddy’s Question-Box

    • For the Children

  • Mr. Mouse Takes A Trip – Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse – A single page with a poem and 5 color illustrations
  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton

    • Between the Book Ends – Poetry:
    Conducted by Ted Malone

  • “Song for a Rainy Day” by Louise Owen
  • “Day We Met” by Marge Engelman
  • “Salt of Earth” by Dorothy Callaway
  • “Nuptial Note” by Margaret Fishback
  • “Fourteen” by Edythe Hope Genee
  • “Goodness, You’re Early” by Barbara A. Jones
  • “The Teacher Marries” by Harold Willard Gleason
  • “Champion” by Lucy Kennedy
  • “Notes on Nutrition” by Ruth Myers
  • “As God Has Planned” by Cathleen Keegan