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1942-01 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

1942/01 – Cover illustrated by Molly McMahon

Contents are as follows:

FICTION:

  • “The Dangerous Corner” by Margaret Cousins and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • “Promise Kept” by Mabel Brown Farwell and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “The Wedding Gift” by Margaret Lee Runbeck and illustrated by John Gannam
  • “What Does Miss Firper Think About?” by Fannie Hurst and illustrated by Harry Anderson
  • “Don’t Worry About Me and the Dames” by Earl Reed Silvers and illustrated by Dink Siegel

    • NOVELETTE:

  • “Where Is Kay Tonight?” by Vina Delmar and illustrated by Alfred Parker

    • SERIALS:

  • “The Golden Road” — Part 4 of 5 — by Eric Hatch and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • A Dog’s Life in Hollywood by Mary Hamman
  • Happy Ever After What? by Kay Riley
  • Wintry Weather by W.F. Bigelow
  • Who, without You? by Edmund Ware
  • What to Give a Hospital Patient by Julia DeBarry
  • How to Get Back Borrowed Books by Frank Sullivan
  • What These Symbols Mean by The Staff
  • A Good Look at Psychoanalysis by Maxine Davis
  • Check List for Making Friends by Dr. Louis E. Bisch
  • When a Daughter Wants to Live Alone by Frances Warfield
  • Minor Resolutions for 1942 by Katharine Brush
  • How to Keep a Diary by Ruth Hawthorne Fay
  • Be It Resolved by George Marek
  • I Wish I’d Met by William Lyon Phelps
  • Making Better Snapshots by Palmer Sims
  • Darling, I Miss You So! by Henrietta Ripperger
  • Letter to the Editor
  • FASHIONS:
    Edited by Martha Stout
  • THE STUDIO:
    Edited by Helen Koues
  • THE INSTITUTE:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher
  • THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin
  • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUEREAU:

    • FOR THE CHILDREN

  • Yoomee by James Swinnerton
  • Mickey’s Birthday Party – Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse – A 5-stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all on a single page
  • BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:

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

  • Includes one by Dilys Bennett Laing

    • 1941-12 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    1941/12 – Cover illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

    Contents are as follows:

    FICTION:

  • “She Was Always a Swell Girl” by J.P. Marquand and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • “The Man Who Had Nothing” by Edmund Ware and illustrated by Harry Anderson
  • “We’ll Just Stand By” by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by John Falter
  • “It Is Later Than You Think” by Richard Sherman and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “The Dark Wood” by Alice Duer Miller and illustrated by Ray Prohaska

    • NOVELETTE:

  • “The Homemade Miracle” by Margaret Cousins and illustrated by Hardie Gramatky

    • SERIALS:

  • “Appassionata” — Part 2 of 2 — by James Hilton and illustrated by Hy Rubin
  • “The Golden Road” — Part 3 of 5 — by Eric Hatch and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • Comes Christmas by W.F. Bigelow
  • A Woman of the Whirl by Henrietta Ripperger
  • Not Even a Mouse? by Kay Riley
  • Making Better Snapshots by Palmer Sims
  • Music to Give by George Marek
  • The World I Knew by Paul Gallico
  • Good Housekeeping Finds Out What a Policewoman Does by The Staff
  • Chart for Saving Money by Mary Berkeley Finke
  • Don’t Reform Your Husband by Dorothy Walworth
  • The Danger of Nervous Fatigue by Edward Spencer Cowles, M.D.
  • The Pattern by Mary Robert Rinehart
  • The Most Beautiful Christmas Story of All
  • Christmas Calvacade by Katharine Brush
  • We’re Going to Have a Baby by Franc M. Luther
  • THE STUDIO:
    Edited by Helen Koues
  • THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin
  • FASHIONS:
    Edited by Martha Stout
  • THE INSTITUTE:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher
  • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING’S HOBBY HOUSE:

    • FOR THE CHILDREN

  • Chef Donald – Walt Disney’s Donald Duck – A 5-stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all on a single page
  • BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:

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

  • “Apostrophe to Youth” by Frances Davis Adams-Moore
  • “Prayer for Poets” by Joyce Marshall
  • “On Planting Seeds” by Audrey Wurdemann
  • “Comforting Thought” by May Richstone
  • “Hunger” by Ruth L.F. Burnett
  • “Our House” by Rachel Field
  • “The Weathercock” by Julia Anne Rogers
  • “Lines for a Dead Liberal” by Joseph Auslander

    • 1941-11 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    1941/11 – Cover illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

    Contents are as follows:

    FICTION:

  • “Banner of Love” by Martha Cheavens and illustrated by Bob Harris
  • “Somebody’s Got to Tell Mother” by Mona Williams and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “The Woman Who Didn’t Like Women” by Richard Sherman and illustrated by Nicholas Riley
  • “It’s about That Girl” by Charles Banner and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “One To Be Chosen” by Don Tracy and illustrated by Pruett Carter

    • NOVELETTE:

  • “Faculty Wife” by Abner Stuart and illustrated by Harry Anderson

    • SERIALS:

  • “Appassionata” — Part 1 of 2 — by James Hilton and illustrated by Hy Rubin
  • “The Golden Road” — Part 2 of 5 — by Eric Hatch and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • It Runs in the Family by Mary Hamman
  • Thanksgiving, 1941 by W.F. Bigelow
  • News about Mr. G and Sir A. by George Marek
  • Thank You by Kay Riley
  • Making Better Snapshots by Palmer Sims
  • For What We Give Thanks by Hazel Parker
  • What a Dog Breeder Does by The Staff
  • I Know Best by Henry F. Pringle
  • How to Choose a Doctor by Robert D. Potter
  • Thanksgiving Garland
  • The Truth about Caesareans by Maxine Davis
  • It’s Not My Hollywood by Katharine Brush
  • Gone With the Draft by Henrietta Ripperger
  • Are You Afraid? by Philip Wylie
  • THE STUDIO:
    Edited by Helen Koues
  • THE INSTITUTE:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher
  • FASHIONS:
    Edited by Martha Stout
  • THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin

    • FOR THE CHILDREN

  • The Art of Skiing – Walt Disney’s Goofy – A 5-stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all on a single page
  • Youmee by James Swinnerton
  • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:
  • BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:

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

  • “My Secret” by Elizabeth S. Kunkle
  • “Insects” by Witter Bynner
  • “Love Song” by Marguerite Janvrin Adams
  • “Story Hour for Refugees” by Helen Frazee-Bower
  • “Absence” by Charles Hanson Towne
  • “The Misses Thing” by Dorothy Ann Blank
  • “Song for a Child” by W.H. McCreary
  • “Predestination” by Berton Braley
  • More Between the Book Ends

    • 1941-10 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    1941/10 – Cover illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

    Contents are as follows:

    FICTION:

  • “Reconciliation” by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Alex Ross
  • “Big Night Ahead” by Jessie Scott and illustrated by George Hughes
  • “Steadies” by Nancy Titus and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • “Little Brother” by Margaret Cousins and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • “Why Did She Go Back? by Barbara Aldrich and illustrated by Ray Prohaska

    • NOVELETTE:

  • “Woman Unattached” by Joseph and Adeline Marx and illustrated by Earl Cordrey

    • SERIALS:

  • “The Golden Road” — Part 1 of 5 — by Eric Hatch and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • “Deep Down Inside Me” — Part 4 of 4 — by Reita Lambert and illustrated by Alfred Parker

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • That’s Where Their Money Goes by Mary Hamman
  • Harvest Home by W.F. Bigelow
  • It Will Never Be So Good by George Marek
  • Such Is Wife by Kay Riley
  • Making Better Snapshots by Palmer Sims
  • Let’s Pull Up Our Socks by Margaret Culkin Banning
  • What a Woman Obstetrician Does by The Staff
  • How They Get Married by Mail by Gretta Palmer
  • Why You Don’t by Isabel Scott Rorick
  • My, How He’s Changed by Hildegarde Dolson
  • Anemia by Maxine Davis
  • This Funny Language by Katharine Brush
  • Will Your Baby Like That Name?
  • If You Must Run After a Man! by Dorothy Walworth
  • What You Goin’ To Do When Your Date Comes Around? by Henrietta Ripperger
  • Worried about Yesterday? by Philip Wylie
  • 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
  • Lend a Paw – Walt Disney’s Goofy – 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

  • “October Evening” by Faith Baldwin
  • “End of Summer” by Margaret E. Sangster
  • “The Letters” by Ethel Barnett de Vito
  • “Off the Highway” by John Gould Fletcher
  • “The Tranquil Hour” by Don Blanding
  • “Hopeful Outlook” by W.E. Farbstein
  • “Concert Queue” by Daniel Henderson
  • “Hand Him a Halo!” by Addison H. Hallock
  • “Jimmy” by May Richstone
  • “Five Bare Boys” by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
  • “Young Fisherman on the Gulf” by Edith Tatum
  • “Substitute” by Elaine V. Emans
  • “My Name Is Legion” by Sara Henderon Hay
  • “Knitted Shawl” by Margaret Widdemer
  • “To a First Gray Hair” by Gladys McKee

    • 1941-09 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    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

    • 1941-08 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    1941/08 – Cover illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

    Contents are as follows:

    FICTION:

  • “Until Isobelle Came” by Louise Dickinson Rich and illustrated by Harry Anderson
  • “In Full Glory Reflected” by James Street and illustrated by Bob Harris
  • “Take Care of Yourself” by Libbie Block and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • “Four Months Married” by Mona Williams and illustrated by Emery Clarke
  • “Member of the Family” by Mary Hastings Bradley and illustrated by Fredric Varady
  • “Say You Forgive Me” by Irene Hunt and illustrated by Earl Cordrey
  • “The Day I First Saw You” by Margaret Weymouth Jackson and illustrated by Pruett Carter

    • SERIAL:

  • “Deep Down Inside Me” — Part 2 of 4 — by Reita Lambert and illustrated by Alfred Parker

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • What Today’s Movie Stars Were Doing One War Ago by Mary Hamman
  • Children of Tomorrow by W.F. Bigelow
  • Wish We Weren’t Here — What They Said One War Ago — by Kay Riley
  • What a Woman Photographer Does by The Staff
  • Your Own Personality Pattern by Roy E. Dickerson and Fritz Kunkel
  • An Improved 9-Day Reducing Diet
  • An Open Letter to My Wife by Edmund Ware
  • Bronx Cheers for Manhattan by Katharine Brush
  • Home Chart for Infantile Paralysis by Maxine Davis
  • Six of the Meanest Women in Fiction by Philippe de Croisset
  • You Don’t Have to Worry About Us by Helen Markel
  • What Is the MOst Popular Piece of Music? by George Marek
  • Making Better Snapshots by Palmer Sims
  • What They Say About Us by Henrietta Ripperger
  • FASHIONS:
    Edited by Martha Stout
  • THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin
  • THE STUDIO:
    Edited by Helen Koues
  • THE INSTITUTE:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher

    • FOR THE CHILDREN

  • Canine Caddy – Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse – A 5-stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all on a single page
  • Youmee by James Swinnerton
  • BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:
  • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:

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

  • “Two Years Old” by Nancy Moore Kelsey
  • “Brave Heritage” by Edna Mead
  • “Hollyhock Ladies” by Eleanor Joanne Boeshaar
  • “The House Rejoices” by May Carleton Lord
  • “No Exchange” by Allison Turner
  • “We Who Wait” by Mary Cherry Phelps
  • “Blind Child” by Violet Alleyn Storey
  • “Efficiency Expert” by Jane Harris
  • “A Flame Leaps Up” by Jane Coffin
  • “Love’s Bounty” by Archibald Rutledge
  • “The Duck Pond” by Grace Noll Crowell
  • “Tied” by Mabel Freer Loveridge
  • “Circle of a Tear” by John Richard Moreland
  • “First Flight” by Frances Frost
  • “Half-Past Tears” by Edith Ogden
  • “In the Wake of Love” by Ruth Carroll

    • 1941-07 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    1941/07 – Cover illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

    Contents are as follows:

    FICTION:

  • “From a Grateful Patient” by Augusta Tucker and illustrated by Marshall Frantz
  • “Her Name Was Mary Smith” by Louise Kennedy Mabie and illustrated by George Hughes
  • “Such a Little White Lie” by Brooke Hanlon and illustrated by Emery Clarke
  • “How High Is the Sky?” by Abner Stuart and illustrated by Carl Mueller
  • “He Was My Husband” by Fanny Heaslip Lea and illustrated by Ray Prohaska

    • NOVELETTE:

  • “Jennie Jones” by Nelia Gardner White and illustrated by Tom Lovell

    • SERIALS:

  • “Deep Down Inside Me” — Part 1 of 4 — by Reita Lambert and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “Everything Happens to Us” – Part 4 of 4 — by Ruth Lyons and illustrated by Earl Cordrey
  • “Young Widow” — Part 6 of 6 — by Clarissa Fairchild Cushman and illustrated by Harry Anderson

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • Chance by James Hilton
  • Free Men Speaking by W.F. Bigelow
  • Who Keeps the Stars Shining? by Mary Hamman
  • Summer Hostile by Kay Riley
  • “I’d Give Another Penny If This Thing Would Stop!” by George Marek
  • One War Ago
  • What a Department Store Buyer Does by The Staff
  • What Not To Tell a Husband by Dorothy Walworth
  • How to Be a Weekend Guest by Irene Parrott
  • Six Supreme Sacrifices in Fiction by Henry L. Scott
  • What Does One Do with the Unmarried Daughter by Florence Howitt and Marjorie Marks
  • Your Son Graduates by Katharine Brush
  • My Dream Girl by Frank Sullivan
  • Don’t Let It Get You Down by Henrietta Ripperger
  • Making Better Snapshots by Palmer Sims

    • FOR THE CHILDREN

  • Youmee by James Swinnerton
  • Baggage Buster — Walt Disney’s Goofy – A 5-stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all on a single page
  • THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin
  • FASHIONS:
    Edited by Martha Stout
  • THE INSTITUTE:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher
  • THE STUDIO:
    Edited by Helen Koues
  • BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:
  • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:

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

  • “Late for Chores” by Glenn Ward Dresbach
  • “Reminder” by Sydney King Russell

  • “Fool-Chile” by Evantha Caldwell
  • “Mary Loved Lilacs” by Lulita Crawford Pritchett
  • “No Help Wanted” by Mildred Bresee Osterhout
  • “Late Summer Dusk” by Quincy Guy Burris
  • “Eternal Triangle” by Violet Alleyn Storey
  • “Interview With a Bumblebee” by Doris Barnett Roach
  • “Sunday-Night Service” by Louise Lounsbury

    • 1941-06 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    1941/06 – Cover illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

    Contents are as follows:

    FICTION:

  • “One Night, Long Ago” by James Hilton and illustrated by Emery Clark
  • “She’s My Witch” by Abner Stuart and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • “The Door That Would Not Stay Closed” by Mary Roberts Rinehart and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • “I Haven’t Seen You Cry” by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Al Parker
  • “One Wedding More” by Gladys Taber and illustrated by Ray Prohaska

    • NOVELETTE:

  • “Simply Heaven” by Margaret Lee Runbeck and illustrated by Bob Harris

    • SERIALS:

  • “Everything Happens to Us” – Part 3 of 4 — by Ruth Lyons and illustrated by Earl Cordrey
  • “Young Widow” — Part 5 of 6 — by Clarissa Fairchild Cushman and illustrated by Harry Anderson

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • Town Hall by The Editors
  • In the Time of Roses by W.F. Bigelow
  • A Normal Little Girl in the Movies by Mary Hamman
  • Naughty! Naughty! by George Marek
  • Loco Motion by Kay Riley
  • Making Better Snapshots by Palmer Sims
  • The Character of My Children by Edmund Ware
  • What a Woman Columnist Does by The Staff
  • A Home Medical Chart on Skin Disorders
  • Don’t Call Me Lady Chesterfield by Margaret Case Harriman
  • How to Interest Children in Art by Thomas Craven
  • The Six Best-Dressed Women in Fiction by Carmel Snow
  • Life Could Be Improved by Katharine Brush
  • Where Shall They Go for Glory? by Pearl S. Buck
  • Recipes for Human Nature by Paul Grabbe
  • How to Talk to a Man by Henrietta Ripperger

  • Are You Going With a Service Man? by Henrietta Ripperger
  • FASHIONS:
    Edited by Martha Stout

    • FOR THE CHILDREN

  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton
  • A Gentleman’s Gentleman — Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse – A 5-stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all on a single page
  • THE STUDIO:
    Edited by Helen Koues
  • THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin
  • THE INSTITUTE:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher
  • BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:
  • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:

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

  • “Brides” by Isabelle Bryans Longfellow
  • “Motherhood” by Edith Cherrington
  • “A Little Boy Out Walking” by Helen Dahle
  • “Fable for Spring” by Irene Wilde
  • “Promise” by Frances Boal Mehlek
  • “We Are Three” by David O. Selznick
  • “Domesticity” by Albert Horlings
  • “Love Letters in an Attic” by Dorothy Cowles Pinkney
  • “Gardener’s Lament” by Florence Hilliard
  • “We Have Wept” by Mary Scott Willour

    • 1941-05 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    1941/05 – Cover illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

    Contents are as follows:

    FICTION:

  • “Captain’s Table” by Alice Duer Miller and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “Memo to Millie” by Robert Carson and illustrated by George Hughes
  • “That Wonderful Bird” by John Fante and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • “Romantic Encounter” by Margaret Cousins and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “Stars in the Sky” by Earl Reed Silvers and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “Show Going On” by Nancy Moore and illustrated by Carl Mueller

    • NOVELETTE:

  • “The Woman Who Was Different” by Ann Pinchot and illustrated by Michael

    • SERIALS:

  • “Everything Happens to Us” – Part 2 of 4 — by Ruth Lyons and illustrated by Earl Cordrey
  • “Young Widow” — Part 4 of 6 — by Clarissa Fairchild Cushman and illustrated by Harry Anderson

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • Mothers’ and Fathers’ Day by W.F. Bigelow
  • Town Hall by The Editors
  • Odyssey of an Ugly Duckling by Mary Hamman
  • How Are You On Wheels? by Kay Riley
  • Recipes for Human Nature–Number Eight by Paul Grabbe
  • Cycle by Fannie Hurst
  • Good Housekeeping Finds Out What a Dancing Teacher Does by The Staff
  • My Favorite Animals in Fiction by Raymond L. Ditmars
  • How to Raise Money for Charity by Gretta Palmer
  • Did You Ever Envy the Children of Kings by Philippe de Croisset
  • Rheumatic Fever by Maxine Davis
  • The Girls I’d Like to Marry by Jon Whitcomb
  • To a New Bride by Mary Hastings Bradley
  • So You Can’t Sleep! by Katharine Brush
  • This Modern Stuff by George Marek
  • Making Better Snapshots by Palmer SIms
  • Everybody But Me! by Henrietta Ripperger
  • Shall We Go to Canada? by Alva J. Leonard

    • FOR THE CHILDREN

  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton
  • Golden Eggs — Walt Disney’s Donald Duck – A 5-stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all on a single page
  • THE STUDIO:
    Edited by Helen Koues
  • FASHIONS:
    Edited by Martha Stout
  • THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin
  • THE INSTITUTE:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher
  • BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:
  • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:

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

  • “Class Reunion” by Violet Alleyn Storey
  • “My Credo” by Elsie Linn Harrison
  • “View From My Window” by E. Pearl Dancey
  • “The Year’s at the Spring” by Luise Putcamp, Jr.
  • Sonnet by Elaine V. Emans
  • “Despair” by Hilda Conkling
  • “To a Certain Child” by Arthur Gordon
  • “Kindred Souls” by Julia Reese Osborn
  • “Telltail” by Ernestine Mercer
  • “Lost Leave” by Roena Burger

    • 1941-04 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    1941/04 – Cover illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

    Contents are as follows:

    FICTION:

  • “Eighteen All Over” by Margaret Weymouth Jackson and illustrated by Dink Siegel
  • “The Rampage of Charles Raleigh” by Edmund Ware and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “More Than a Woman” by Pearl Buck and illustrated by Al Parker
  • “Who Do You Love?” by Jon Whitcomb and illustrated by the author
  • “When People Love You” by Alice Lent Covert and illustrated by Ray Prohaska

    • NOVELETTE:

  • “Wildfire” by Mary Hastings Bradley and illustrated by Lyman Anderson

    • SERIALS:

  • “Everything Happens to Us” – Part 1 of 4 — by Ruth Lyons and illustrated by Earl Cordrey
  • “Young Widow” — Part 3 of 6 — by Clarissa Fairchild Cushman and illustrated by Harry Anderson
  • “Mrs. Fane Comes of Age” — Part 5 of 5 — by Libbie Block and illustrated by Tom Lovell

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • Redbud Time by W.F. Bigelow
  • Town Hall by The Editors
  • Recipes for Human Nature–Number Seven by Paul Grabbe
  • Tchaikovsky on Broadway by George Marek
  • We’ll Sit This Out by Kay Riley
  • What They Might Have Been by Mary Hamman
  • Faces to the Sun by Daphne du Maurier
  • Good Housekeeping Finds Out What Makes a Good Nurse for Babies by The Staff
  • How to Get Over a Man by Dorothy Walworth
  • Some of My Favorite Villains by William Lyon Phelps
  • “I Remember Your Face–But I Cannot Recall Your Name” by Robert H. Nutt
  • Six of the World’s Great Love Letters — Selected by M. Lincoln Schuster
  • How to Make Friends in a New Town by Betty Multon Gaskill
  • Going Steady–Going Where? by Henrietta Ripperger
  • Making Better Snapshots by Palmer Sims

    • FOR THE CHILDREN

  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton
  • Goofy’s Glider — Walt Disney’s Goofy – A 5-stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all on a single page
  • FASHIONS:
    Edited by Martha Stout
  • THE STUDIO:
    Edited by Helen Koues
  • THE INSTITUTE:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher
  • THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin
  • BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:
  • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:

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

  • “Featherstich” by Eloise Ball Disbrow
  • “Today the Iris Bloomed” by Pearl Leita Patterson
  • “Concerning Weapons” by Marion Doyle
  • “Now Begin Again” by Agnes L. Porter
  • “Tranquility” by Grace Noll Crowell
  • “Pussy Wants a Corner” by Ruth Stewart Schenley
  • “At the Flower Show” by Kathryn H. Hall
  • “Down from the Sky” by Dale Fisher
  • “Credo of Unrest” by Lolly Williams

    • 1941-03 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    1941/03 – Cover illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

    Contents are as follows:

    FICTION:

  • “The Man Who Cheated Time” by Sinclair Lewis and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “No Man Is a Saint” by Ruth Lyons and illustrated by Earl Cordrey
  • “The Shape of Candor” by Elizabeth Dunn and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “Her Own People” by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “Love Is What You Fight For” by Virginia Sullivan Tomlinson and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • “A Father Is Where You Find Him” by Margaret Lee Runbeck and illustrated by John Gannam

    • SERIALS:

  • “Young Widow” — Part 2 of 6 — by Clarissa Fairchild Cushman and illustrated by Harry Anderson
  • “Mrs. Fane Comes of Age” — Part 4 of 5 — by Libbie Block and illustrated by Tom Lovell

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • Children First by W.F. Bigelow
  • Town Hall by The Editors
  • Meet Frank Capra Making a Picture by Mary Hamman
  • Are You a Bookworm? by Kay Riley
  • The Joy of Playing Badly by George Marek
  • Recipes for Human Nature–Number Six by Paul Grabbe
  • One Small Candle by Cecil Roberts
  • For Your Future Security by Milton MacKaye
  • She Does and She Doesn’t by Katharine Brush
  • How to Give to Charity by William F. McDermott
  • My Favorite Children in Fiction by William Lyon Phelps

  • What! No Husband? by Hildegarde Dolson
  • Ten Ways for You to Help National Defense by Harriet Elliott
  • Your Small Diamonds Are Worth Much More Today by Howard and Sue Whitman
  • A Lady Writes a Letter by Henrietta Ripperger
  • Making Better Snapshots by Palmer Sims

    • FOR THE CHILDREN

  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton
  • Timber — Walt Disney’s Donald Duck – A 5-stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all on a single page
  • THE STUDIO:
    Edited by Helen Koues
  • FASHIONS:
    Edited by Martha Stout
  • THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin
  • THE INSTITUTE:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher
  • BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:
  • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:

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

  • “Exception” by Curry Fewell
  • “Late Love” by Isabelle Bryans Longfellow
  • “Young Pilot” by Patricia Hartnett
  • “Discovery” by Helen Frazee-Bower
  • “Question before the House by Mayhoward Austin McEachern
  • “Note to America” by Elaine V. Emans
  • “Where Love Abides” by Barbara Young
  • “Keep Knitting” by Margaret Eaton
  • “Small Room” by Dorothy Ashby Pownall
  • “The Pumpkin-Eater’s Wife” by Irene Taylor
  • “Portrait” by Billy B. Cooper

    • 1941-01 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    1941/01 – Cover illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

    Contents are as follows:

    FICTION:

  • “He’s Your Son” by Edward Stevenson and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “The Most Important Thing” by Frederick Wight and illustrated by Michael
  • “With a Glory in Their Eyes” by Thelma Strabel and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “College Dances Are No Different” by Earl Reed Silvers and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • “Once They Had Been in Love” by Thomas W. Duncan and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • “We Are Not in Georgia” by Louis Bromfield and illustrated by Mortimer Wilson, Jr.

    • SERIALS:

  • “Mrs. Fane Comes of Age” — Part 2 of 5 — by Libbie Block and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • “The Valorous Years” — Part 5 of 6 — by A.J. Cronin and illustrated by John Falter

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • When the Bells Ring by W.F Bigelow
  • We’re Getting Pettish by Kay Riley
  • Town Hall by The Editors
  • What Else Could I Wish For? by Jan Struther
  • When Caruso Sang by George Marek
  • The Free Peoples by Katharine Brush
  • Stage Fright and What to Do About It by Dwight E. Watkins and Harrison M. Karr
  • How to Look at A Picture by Thomas Craven
  • Firmly They Resolve by Mary Hammon
  • Some of My Favorite Quotations by William Lyon Phelps
  • A Medical Chart for Winter Ailments
  • Making Better Snapshots by Palmer Sims
  • Maid in America by Henrietta Ripperger
  • Recipes for Human Nature–Number Four by Paul Grabbe

    • FOR THE CHILDREN

  • The Little Whirlwind — Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse – A 5-stanza poem with 5 color illustrations of Mickey Mouse all on a single page
  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton
  • THE STUDIO:
    Edited by Helen Koues
  • THE INSTITUTE:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher
  • FASHIONS:
    Edited by Martha Stout
  • BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:
  • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:
  • THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin

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

  • “The New Petition” by Roena Burger
  • “The Fallen Warrior” by Mark Oxford
  • “Our Next Speaker” by Denis Plimmer
  • “Grandmama” by Beth Conley
  • “Familiar Setting” by Carolyn Ellis
  • “Recompense” by Louise Shaw
  • “Lady in a Spot” by Kathleen Sutton
  • “Heartbreak” by Lois Frant Palches
  • “Travelers” by Mabel Tuttle Craig
  • “To You” by Dorothy P. Albaugh
  • “Love Story” by Mildred Goff
  • “Lamplighter” by Elizabeth Dawson

    • 1940-12 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    1940/12 – Cover illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

    Contents are as follows:

    FICTION:

  • “For I Am Sick of Love” by Margaret Weymouth Jackson and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “Be Kind to Me” by Nelia Gardner White and illustrated by Bob Harris
  • “The Sealskin Coat” by Elisabeth Stancy Payne and illustrated by Harry Anderson
  • “Hotel Child” by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “Mr. and Mrs. Dumb” by Richard Sherman and illustrated by Geoffrey Biggs
  • “Whisper of Spring” by Margaret Cousins and illustrated by Earl Cordrey

    • SERIALS:

  • “Mrs. Fane Comes of Age” — Part 1 of a Serial — by Libbie Block and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • “The Valorous Years” — Part 4 of 6 — by A.J. Cronin and illustrated by John Falter
  • “I Wanted to Murder” — Part 6 of 6 — by Clarissa Fairchild Cushman and illustrated by Nicholas Riley

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • Christmas, 1940 by W.F. Bigelow
  • Town Hall by The Editors
  • Enter, with Flourish by Henrietta Ripperger
  • Making Better Snapshots by Palmer Sims
  • Recipes for Human Nature — Number Three by Paul Grabbe
  • No End of Spirit by Kay Riley
  • Hoofbeats on a Bridge by Alexander Woollcott
  • They Who Are Not Yet Born by Pearl S. Buck
  • Before You Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler
  • How to Understand the News by Quincy Howe
  • What I Like About the American Girl by Jon Whitcomb
  • Music for Johnny (And Mary Too) by George Marek
  • A Memory by I.A.R. Wylie
  • How to Keep a Husband and a Job by John Kobler
  • THE INSTITUTE:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher
  • THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin
  • THE STUDIO:
    Edited by Helen Koues
  • FASHIONS:
    Edited by Martha Stout
  • BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:
  • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:

    • FOR THE CHILDREN

  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton
  • Mickey Mouse – Walt Disney’s – A single page with large image of Mickey Mouse with the banner “Good Housekeeping Toy FestivalL

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

  • “Christmas Is Coming” by Sara Henderson Hay
  • “Meritorious” by Jr. Campbell
  • “Lonely Road” by Gerald Raftery
  • “Silver Swans” by Eunice Mildred LonCoske
  • “The Giant-Killer” by Berton Braley
  • “First Christmas Lullaby” by Frances Frost
  • “Dilettante” by E.M. Wilkins
  • “Talking With You Again” by Dorothy Glazer
  • “Integrity” by Ernestine Mercer

    • 1940-10 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    1940/10 – Cover illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

    Contents are as follows:

    FICTION:

  • “A Life Is So Little” by Wilbur Daniel Steele and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “Thank Your Stars” by Pauline Partridge and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • “The Valorous Years” — Part 2 of 6 — by A.J. Cronin and illustrated by A.J. Cronin
  • “In the Circle of Their Arms” by Dorothy Cottrell and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • “Nor Ever Less Dear” by Margaret Culkin Banning and illustrated by Harry Anderson
  • “Just For the Night” by J. Hyatt Downing and illustrated by Peter Helck
  • “I Wanted to Murder” — Part 4 of 6 — by Clarissa Fairchild Cushman and illustrated by Nicholas Riley
  • “Never to Love Again” by Hamlen Hunt and illustrated by Ray Prohaska

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • Fit to Fight by W.F. Bigelow
  • Town Hall by The Editors
  • Little Tongue, What Now? by Henrietta Ripperger
  • Recipes for Human Nature–Number One by Paul Grabbe
  • Music at Home by George Marek
  • In the Firing Line by Kay Riley
  • Can We Trust the Common People? by Dr. George Gallup
  • I’m Getting a New Face by Anonymous and illustrated by Glen Fleischmann
  • Bet It’s a Boy! by Betty Bacon Blunt
  • Could You Be a Detective? by Gerold Frank
  • A Child’s First Shelf of Books by Mildred Batchelder and Elizabeth Groves
  • Never Marry for Love by Arthur Gordon
  • The Story of the Willow Pattern by Leslie Thomas

    • SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • College Night Club by Katherine Roberts
  • How to Answer Questions by Mortimer J. Adler
  • How to Give a Book Review by Winifred Inglis Baumgartner
  • Rate Yourself as a Driver by Ray W. Sherman
  • These Things We Still Say by Leonarda Visconti
  • It Was a Flop by George Martin

    • THE STUDIO:
    Edited by Helen Koues

  • News: Plastics You Can Afford!
  • Not Money, But Brains!
  • If You Inherited China
  • Color in Paint and Towels
  • Why Be Annoyed?
  • Furniture Finishes
  • $275 Makes Your Home in One Room
  • Three Memebers of a Family Use This Closet

  • Why Not a Built-In Radio?
  • Cold-Weather Friend
  • Like Change?
  • What to Do For Ceiling Trouble

    • THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin

  • Man’s-Eye View of Your Dressing Table
  • Rings On Your Fingers
  • Good-bye to Tan
  • What’s the Matter With High-School Girls?
  • Beauty in Your Eyebrows

    • FASHIONS:
    Edited by Martha Stout

  • From the Inside–Out
  • The Attenuated Waistline
  • The Long, Lean Hip
  • Show Your Face
  • The Kind of Dress You Wear–and Where
  • Bark-Brown Suits
  • Winter Coat News
  • What We Mean by a “Good” Dress
  • Inexpensive Innovations
  • The Slide Is Quicker than the Eye
  • How to Put on a Soft Girdle
  • For Larger Women
  • Neckline Jewelry

    • THE INSTITUTE:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher

  • The Cook Takes a Knife
  • The Week’s Washing
  • Good Reasons Why You Can Depend Upon the Seal of Approval
  • Seven Two-Course Dinners
  • Lingerie–To Have and To Hold
  • Five Plans for October Parties
  • Dried Fruits
  • Rugs and Carpets
  • Folks with Food

    • BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:

  • Christmas Gifts From Your Piece Bag by Dorothy Wagner
  • Father Handles the Baby by Dr. Josephine H. Kenyon

    • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:

  • Dr. Eddy’s Question-Box

    • FOR THE CHILDREN

  • Fire Chief – Walt Disney’s Donald Duck – A single page with a poem and 5 color illustrations
  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton

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

  • “The Parting” by June M. Yahraus
  • “Renown” by Nancy Byrd Turner
  • “Challenge” by May Richstone
  • “Picture of an Afternoon” by Elaine V. Emans
  • “Foster Mother” by Bessie Marlin Mason
  • “Minuet” by Witter Bynner
  • “Recital” by Elizabeth Dawson
  • “Reluctant Wisdom” by Maud Wullstein
  • “”And This I Ask” by May Howard McEachern
  • “Red Cross” by Myra Spratford
  • “Good Housekeeping” by Murray Lavery

    • 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

    • 1940-06 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    1940/06 – Cover illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

    Contents are as follows:

    Fiction:

  • “A Place to Cry” by Edmund Ware and illustrated by Harry Anderson
  • “The Life That Abby Had” by Barbara Aldrich and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • “Farewell Without Regret” — Part 2 of 5 — by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • “Some Like It Blue” by Francis Swann and illustrated by George Hughes
  • “Studio Party” by Mary Hastings Bradley and illustrated by Walter Biggs
  • “Love Can be a Problem” — Part 5 of 6 — by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “Take That Off, Put This On” by Marion Baxter Taylor and illustrated by Edwin Georgi
  • “How Long Do you Give Me?” by Augusta Tucker and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “Mr. Willoughby Does Not Wish to Change” by Gladys Taber and illustrated by John Gannam

    • Special Articles:

  • A Man to Vote For by W.F. Bigelow
  • Town Hall by The Editors
  • Going Over with Girls by Henrietta Ripperger
  • Two New Heroes in the Movies by Mary Hamman
  • Music at Home by George Marek
  • Something Blue, All Right! by Kay Riley
  • Twins by Lowell Brentano
  • Blood Pressure–Why High? by Maxine Davis
  • Bingo Tonite by James Monahan
  • How to Find a New Life by Hughes Mearns

    • Special Features:

  • Open Your Eyes Tonight by Armand N. Spitz
  • How to Keep Awake While Reading by Mortimer J. Adler
  • As We Live and Breathe by Donald Culross Peattie
  • Specialty Shopping by Christopher Morley
  • The Power of Seeing Things by Donald A. Laird
  • You Must Come Up for the Weekend by Lydia Hewes
  • Manners at the Bridge Table by Josephine Culbertson
  • Why Women Buy the Wrong Things by Lillian G. Genn
  • It Was a Flop by George Martin

    • Fashions:
    Edited by Martha Stout

  • Really Rural
  • Downtown Dresses–Under $15
  • Actually–She’s Having Her Baby This Month
  • Playclothes Need Playshoes
  • Recipe for a Work Dress
  • You Can Design a Dress!
  • These Are the Winners!
  • These Won Honorable Mention
  • Wear These While You Work

    • The Studio:
    Edited by Helen Koues

  • Make Your House Comfortable in Summer
  • Don’t Let Decorating Scare You
  • Summer Lights Indoors and Out
  • Make the Most of Summer
  • Looking Cool Helps Keep You Cool
  • Make Your Winter Blanket Covers Now!

    • The Institute:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher

  • Why Vegetables Are Ruined
  • Good Fried Chicken–It’s No Trick
  • What Do you Know About Tea?
  • Cookie Quickies
  • Shirts and Shorts
  • Salmon for Summer
  • Old Refrigerators
  • How to Eat our of a Refrigerator
  • A Housecoat for Your Bread
  • 60 Recipes for Saving on Food Bills

    • The Beauty Clinic:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin

  • Sun in Your Eyes
  • Deodorants, Of Course, But How Can You Be Sure?
  • Make a Pretty Picture

    • Good Housekeeping Bureau:

  • Dr. Eddy’s Question-Box

    • Babies, Needlework:

  • Symptoms of Allergy in Your Children by Dr. Josephine H. Kenyon
  • Tat fopr Your Trousseau by Anne Orr

    • For the Children

  • Bone Trouble – 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

  • “I Like a Map!” by Cristel Hastings
  • “He Remembers a Girl in an Orchard” by Martha Banning Thomas
  • “Song of Laurel” by Allison Ross
  • “When Martha Walks” by Thomas Sugrue
  • “Surrender” by Ruth Crary Clough
  • “Just Horse” by Stan Blakeslee
  • “Lost Detours” by Ethel Romig Fuller
  • “Naming the Baby” by May Richstone
  • “Poem to Parents” by Frances Frost

    • 1940-03 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    1940/03 – Cover illustrated by Horace Gaffron

    Contents are as follows:

  • The Editor’s Page: Easter Again — War Again

    • Fiction:

  • “Broken Melody” — Part 1 of 3 — by Grace Sartwell Mason and illustrated by Ritchie Cooper
  • “Where Love Is” by Nelia Gardner White and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • “Love Can Be a Problem” — Part 2 of 6 — by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “Practically Perfect” by Lenora Mattingly Weber and illustrated by Edwin Henry
  • “Job for Life” by Dorothy Aldis and illustrated by Roy Spreter
  • “Mrs. Butch” by Margaret Cousins and illustrated by George Howe
  • “Someone for Susie” by Ruth Lyons and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • “The Man Who Put Off Marrying” by Marian Sims and illustrated by John Falter

    • Special Articles:

  • Lots of People Don’t Drink by Henrietta Ripperger
  • War and Peace in Hollywood by Mary Hamman
  • Facts and Fiction by The Staff
  • Spare That Housemaid’s Knee by Grace P. Smith
  • Ritchie Cooper
  • Espionage–Life of Peril by Richard Wilmer Rowan and illustrated by Robert Fawcett
  • Music at Home by Oscar Levant
  • What Price Glamour? by Claudia Cranston
  • Women in Politics — Part 2 of 3 — by Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Are You a Dropper-Inner? by Lydia Hewes
  • The Brides’ School Studies Cleaning by Helen W. Kendall
  • Foolproof Plants by Chesla C. Sherlock

    • The Institute:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher

  • Does Your Family Get Enough Milk?
  • A Few for Dinner
  • Fish baked to Perfection
  • Toast Hot and Crisp
  • Waffles Golden Brown
  • Latest News of Kitchen Sinks
  • Marketing for Two
  • Choosing Corsets for Comfort and Figure

    • The Studio:
    Edited by Helen Koues

  • Good Housekeeping’s “Better Living” House
  • Transform Your “Dated” Room
  • Plot and Planting Plan

    • Fashions:
    Edited by Martha Stout

  • Letter from Lydia

  • It’s a Patriotic Spring!
  • Silk Prints That Look Like Tweeds
  • American Fashion Investments — Series II

  • With Navy Blue
  • Make Yourself a Ribbon Hat
  • What Every Woman Wants In Shoes

  • Wear Red, White, Or Blue Gloves
  • Wear Bright White With Red or Navy
  • Regimental Stripes

    • The Beauty Clinic:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin

  • What Is She Doing?
  • Your Permanent–Long May It Wave
  • Making Your Lips Prettier Than They Are

    • Good Housekeeping Bureau:

  • Food In the Army by Dr. Walter H. Eddy
  • Dr. Eddy’s Question-Box

    • Babies:

  • Does Your Child Behave? by Dr. Josephine H. Kenyon

    • For the Children

  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton
  • Donald’s Elephant – Walt Disney’s Donald Duck – A single page with a poem and 5 color illustrations

    • Poems:

  • “To a Nightingale” by Clara Hood Rugel
  • “Old Griefs” by Edith Tatum

  • “Penitence” by Virginia Eaton

  • “Lesson” by Elizabeth Grey Stewart

  • “I Saw God, Too” by Mary Rice Maxwell

  • “Spring Notes” by Maxine E. Mooney

    • 1939-12 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    1939/12 – Cover illustrated by Horace Gaffron

    Contents are as follows:

  • The Editor’s Page: In the Name of Peace

    • Fiction:

  • “Gone Is the Phoenix” — Part 1 of 2 — by Nelia Gardner White and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “The Brood” by Howard Fast and illustrated by Benton Clark
  • “Donder, Blitzen and Boppy” by Edmund Ware and illustrated by Harry Anderson
  • “A Few for Dinner” by Margaret Culkin Banning and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • “High Noon” — Part 3 of 5 — by Clara Wallace Overton and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb (this isn’t a Western)
  • “Its Absurd, Miss Bugle” by Leslie Gordon Barnard and illustrated by Mortimer Wilson
  • “One Day Late” by Dorothy Canfield and illustrated by Hy Rubin
  • “Road to Folly” — Part 4 of 5 — by Leslie Ford and illustrated by John Alan Maxwell

    • Special Articles:

  • A Christmas Message to Youth by Arhtur H. Compton
  • The Movie Forum by Mary Hamman
  • Facts and Fiction by The Staff
  • Does Santa Claus Believe in You? by Grace P. Smith

  • Ray Prohaska
  • Marriage in the Making by Helen Welshimer
  • The Perennial Plague by Maxine Davis is about respiratory diseases
  • Can You Remember? by Selma Robinson
  • Trade Winds by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Stevan Dohanos
  • Parties for Christmas by Henrietta Ripperger

    • The Studio:
    Edited by Helen Koues

  • Decorating the House for Christmas

  • Let’s Give a Christmas Gift to the House!
  • Surprise!
  • How to Wrap Your Gifts
  • Gifts from the Gimbel-Good Housekeeping House

    • The Beauty Clinic:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin

  • Cosmetics for Christmas
  • Perfume for a Star – With full-page color photo of Madeleine Carroll
  • We Test and Tell

    • The Institute:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher

  • Verifying Santa Claus
  • Christmas Comes on Monday
  • Delicious December Dishes
  • Chrsitmas Gifts That Ring the Bell
  • Christmas Dinners Fitted to Kitchen or Kitchenette
  • Better Lighting
  • Visits to the Grocer

    • Fashions:
    Edited by Martha Stout

  • Letter from Lydia
  • Full of Presents
  • Horns of Plenty
  • Under Electric Lights
  • Christmas Means Parties
  • Last-Minute Presents
  • Two Dresses from One Pattern
  • Christmas Cheer

    • Good Housekeeping Bureau:

  • Grandfather Was Right by Dr. Walter H. Eddy
  • Dr. Eddy’s Question-Box

    • Babies, Needlework:

  • Everybody Loves a Gift That Was Made By You by Anne Orr
  • If Your Child Won’t Eat by Dr. Josephine H. Kenyon

    • For the Children

  • Donald’s Date – Walt Disney’s Donald Duck – A single page with a poem and 5 color illustrations
  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton

    • Poems:

  • “Wild Sage” by Dorothy Callaway
  • “We Have Seen His Star…And Are Come” by Nancy Byrd Turner
  • “The Keeper of the Inn” by Charles Hanson Towne
  • “Tree of Christmas” by Daniel Henderson
  • “Understanding” by Helen Loomis Linham
  • “So Beautiful the Starlight Is” by Elaine V. Emans
  • “Of Battles” by Archibald Rutledge

    • 1939-10 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    1939/10 – Cover illustrated by Horace Gaffron

    Contents are as follows:

  • The Editor’s Page: Business as Usual

    • Fiction:

  • “High Noon” — Part 1 of 5 — by Clara Wallace Overton and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb (this isn’t a Western)
  • “Taken for Granted” by Doris Peel and illustrated by Mortimer Wilson
  • “So This Is Linda” by Mary Hastings Bradley and illustrated by Michael Dolas
  • “Road to Folly” — Part 2 of 5 — by Leslie Ford and illustrated by John Alan Maxwell
  • “Tell Me, Is There Someone?” by Barbara Aldrich and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “”Lights Out of Darkness” by Gordon Malherbe Hillman and illustrated by J. Karl
  • “Level Landings” by Max Brand and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “Vigil in the Night” — Part 6 of 6 — by A.J. Cronin and illustrated by Pruett Carter

    • Special Features:

  • Never a Dull Moment! by Cornelia Otis Skinner
  • Facts and Fiction by The Staff
  • The Movie Forum by Mary Hamman
  • Dental Cruelty by Grace P. Smith
  • Jon Whitcomb
  • Directors of Destiny by Jerry Allen
  • Growth Without Soil by Gail Brown
  • Down Under by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Stevan Dohanos about New Zealand
  • Drivers Who Drink by Dr. Howard W. Haggard
  • Are You the New Girl? by Henrietta Ripperger

    • The Institute:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher

  • Billy’s Halloween Party
  • Parties With an October Tang
  • Keep Your Home from Burning
  • Mexican Dishes for American Meals
  • “I’d Like to Know How to Cut Food Costs?”
  • Playing a No-Run Game in Hosiery

  • Because you Like Nice Floors
  • Visits to the Grover

    • The Studio:
    Edited by Helen Koues

  • Light — Important to Sight
  • Good Modern Goes Anywhere
  • The Three-Purpose Room
  • More Room in Your Closet
  • Good Housekeeping’s Gimbel House

    • Fashions:
    Edited by Martha Stout

  • Paris News
  • Basic Black
  • Mother Answers Back
  • Modern Bo-Peep Has Found Her Sheep
  • That Good Little Dress
  • Make Your Own–

    • The Beauty Clinic:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin

  • A New Idea in Lipsticks
  • Skin Savers
  • We Test and Tell

    • Good Housekeeping Bureau:

  • “An Apple a Day–” by Dr. Walter H. Eddy

    • Babies, Needlework:

  • Preparing for the New Baby by Dr. Josephine H. Kenyon
  • Nursery Delights by Anne Orr

    • For the Children

  • The Story of Pinocchio — Part 1 — Walt Disney — Takes up parts of 12 pages including 2 full pages that are in color
  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton

    • Poems:

  • “Intercession” by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
  • “Bunny Eyes” by Dixie Willson
  • “No Time for Doubt” by Eleanor Graham
  • “Plains Song” by Helen Topping Miller
  • “Neighbor’s Mary” by Nancy Byrd Turner

    • 1939-08 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    1939/08 – Cover illustrated by Horace Gaffron

    Contents are as follows:

  • The Editor’s Page: Investing in Futures

    • Fiction:

  • “All Ye Faithful” — A Novelette by Martha Cheavens and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “Baptism” by Wilbur Daniel Steele and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • “The Woman Who Did Nothing” by Nelia Gardner White and illustrated by John Gannam
  • “Meet the Day Bravely” — Part 2 of 3 — by Libbie Block and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “House of Our Own” by Margaret Lee Runbeck and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • “Vigil in the Night” — Part 4 of 6 — by A.J. Cronin and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • “The Wedding Ring” by Dan Wickenden and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “Rest Cure” by Edmund Ware and illustrated by Harry Anderson
  • “Appointment With Tomorrow” — Part 6 of 6 — by Ursula Parrott

    • Special Features:

  • Facts and Fiction by The Staff
  • No Lady of the Lake by Grace P. Smith

  • Martha Cheavens
  • “Socialized Medicine” by Maxine Davis
  • Paradise Regained by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Stevan Dohanos
  • Improving Your Vocabulary by Archibald Hart
  • The Wizard of Oz by Jane Hall — Your favorite storybook characters are at last on the screen. And the making of the filmis almost a fairy-tale itself. — Opens with two full pages of text and photos followed by parts of three additional pages of text. Pictured are Dorothy, Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion

  • Daily Occurrence by J.C. Furnas and illustrated by George Howe
  • Talk Trouble by Henrietta Ripperger

    • Poems:

  • “Heaven on the Air” by Helen Loomis Linham
  • “Worship” by Helen Welshimer
  • “Sea Town” by Doris I. Bateman
  • “Young Heartache” by Chesta Holt Fulmer
  • “Home From the Fair” by Lexie Dean Robertson
  • The Poet Considers Perfection by Elizabeth Virginia Reaplee

    • The Institute:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher

  • Roast After Roast
  • Long, Cool Drinks
  • In Buying, Roasting and Carving Lamb
  • Hitting the HIgh C’s in Salads
  • The Inside Story on Electric Dishwashing

  • What Can Clubwomen Do About Home Safety?
  • Visits to the Grocer
  • The Homewood Laundry

    • The Studio:

  • Good Housekeeping – Woodside Hills Exposition House
  • Modern in Color and Construction

    • Fashions:
    Edited by Helen Koues

  • Foolproof Fabrics
  • Lingerie News!
  • Some Like Them Simple!

  • A Pattern to Suit the Younger Generation

    • The Beauty Clinic:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin

  • Keeping Cool in Town
  • The Masked Beauty
  • Accent on Ankles

    • Good Housekeeping Bureau:

  • Beneficient Bugs by Dr. Walter H. Eddy
  • Dr. Eddy’s Question-Box

    • Babies, Needlework:

  • The Winners of Our Quilt Contest by Anne Orr
  • Your Baby Takes Steps by Dr. Josephine H. Kenyon

    • For the Children

  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton

    • 1939-05 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    1939/05 – Cover illustrated by Horace Gaffron

    Contents are as follows:

  • The Editor’s Page: Looking Toward Tomorrow

    • FICTION:

  • “Vigil in the Night” — Part 1 of 6 — by A.J. Cronin and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • “To A Brown-Eyed Girl”by Earl Reed Silvers and illustrated by Bob Harris
  • “Encounter With a Ghost” by Naomi Lane Babson and illustrated by Andrew Loomis
  • “Appointment With Tomorrow” — Part 3 of 6 — by Ursula Parrott and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • “Once There Was a Girl” by Barbara Aldrich and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • “Cockles for Tea” by Eric Knight and illustrated by Warren Baumgartner
  • “American Legend” — Part 6 of 6 — by Pearl Buck and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “Do You Mind?” by Charles Hoffman and illustrated by Edwin Henry
  • “Thicker Than Water” by Virginia Bird Martin and illustrated by Michael Dolas
  • “Right of Way” by Adela Rogers St. Johns and illustrated by George Howe

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • Facts and Fiction by The Staff
  • How This Picture Was Made by Amelia C. Beck
  • Family Doctor
  • Standing In the Place of Mother by Genevieve Parkhurst
  • Make Friends With Manhattan by Arthur Gordon and illustrated by Stevan Dohanos
  • You Have Only One Pair of Eyes by Maxine Davis

    • ,li>A Lady Needs a Change by Henrietta Ripperger

  • Beauty–But Not Culture by Grace P. Smith
  • THE INSTITUTE:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher
  • THE STUDIO:
    Includes:
  • At the New York World’s Fair – Modern rooms decorated by Good Housekeeping for the Pitssburgh Plate Glass Exhibit
  • FASHIONS:
    Edited by Helen Houes

    • THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin

  • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:
  • BABIES, NEEDLEWORK, ETC..:

    • FOR THE CHILDREN

  • Goofy and Wilbur – Walt Disney – A 5 stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all on a single page
  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton
  • POEMS:

    • 1939-04 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    1939/04 – Cover illustrated by Horace Gaffron

    Contents are as follows:

  • The Editor’s Page: Once There Was a Tree

    • FICTION:

  • “Miracle at Elm Harbor” by Coningsby Dawson and illustrated by John Falter
  • “The Girl Who Asked Too Much” by Marian B. Cockrell and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • “Appointment With Tomorrow” — Part 2 of 6 — by Ursula Parrott and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • “Some Other Door” by Cora Jarrett and illustrated by Arthur Sarnoff
  • “American Legend” — Part 5 of 6 — by Pearl Buck and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “The Perfect Treasure” by Thyra Samter Winslow and illustrated by Benton Clark
  • “Glamour” by Stephen Vincent Benet — the favorite short story of Robert Nathan — Illustrated by Edwin Henry
  • “Under One Roof” by Elizabeth Troy and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • “Herman” by Edith Barnard Delano and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • How This Picture Was Made by Andrew Ransome
  • –And I’m So Movie Mad! by Grace P. Smith
  • Facts and Fiction by The Staff
  • To Whom It May Concern by Albert Payson Terhune – 1 page
  • Mrs. Graham Buys a New Dress by Selma Robinson
  • The Questions They Ask by Helen Welshimer
  • Don’t Call It ‘Frisco by Max Miller
  • Speed Limit by J.C. Furnas
  • Dream It and Do It! by Marjorie Hillis
  • Learn and Live by Claudia Cranston
  • FASHIONS:
    Edited by Helen Houes
  • THE STUDIO:
  • THE INSTITUTE:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher

    • THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin

  • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:
  • BABIES, NEEDLEWORK, ETC..:

    • FOR THE CHILDREN

  • Walt Disney’s Silly Symphony: The Ugly Duckling – A 5 stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all on a single page
  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton
  • POEMS:

    • 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

    • 1939-01 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    1939/01 – Cover illustrated by Horace Gaffron

    Contents are as follows:

  • The Editor’s Page: Let’s Go Places

    • Fiction:

  • “By Reputation” — Part 1 of 2 — by Nelia Gardner White and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • “Career Woman” — A Short Story by Margaret Cousins and illustrated by John Falter
  • “American Legend” — Part 2 of 6 — by Pearl Buck and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “The Rustle of Silk” — A Short Story by Mildred Cram and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “Big Game Hunter” — A Short Story by Elmer Davis and illustrated by McClelland Barclay
  • “Delayed Voyage” — A Short Story by Alfred and Eleanor Prowitt and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • “Miss Brill” — Favorite Short Story of Adela Rogers St. Johns — by Katherine Mansfield and illustrated by Dean Cornwell (reprinted from 1922)
  • “Something Practical” — A Short Story by Mariel Brady and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • “The Town Cried Murder” — Part 5 of 6 — by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Stanley Parkhouse
  • “Same Old Skyline” — A Short Story by Brooke Hanlon and illustrated by Plucer

    • Special Features:

  • Facts and Fiction by The Editors
  • To Whom It May Concern by Christopher Morley
  • The Peace Amendment by Genevieve Parkhurst
  • The Hockshops of New York by Eve Garrette
  • Drive Like a Woman! by Rose Wilder Lane
  • Your Own Money by Marjorie Hillis
  • Happy New Wear to Your Clothes by Grace P. Smith

    • Fashions:
    Edited by Helen Koues

  • Winter Playthings for Snow or Sun
  • Suit Yourself — Go South or North
  • For This Business of Housekeeping
  • My Husband Is a Fussy Man!
  • There’s No Telling Who Will Drop In On Saturday
  • These SHoes Feel As If They Were Made Just For Me
  • That Little-Girl Look

    • The Studio:

  • On the Human Side
  • Six Million People Have Visited Our Shield Houses
  • Weston Health and Detroit Houses
  • Newlyweds in Garden City
  • They Bought Wisely at Highland Park
  • A College Professor at Riverdale
  • Has Decorating Got You Down?
  • Good Housekeeping Shield Houses

    • The Institute:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher

  • Money Troubles Start Young
  • Do you Know Your Hams?
  • Hello, Alice, What Do You Want for Dinner
  • Merrily We Wash
  • Standards? Of Course!

  • Meet Our Institute Bulletins
  • Visits to the Grocer

    • The Beauty Clinic:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin

  • Men and Nail Polish
  • Back in Shape
  • We Test and Tell

    • Good Housekeeping Bureau:

  • How Many Vitamins a Day Do We Need? by Dr. Walter H. Eddy
  • Dr. Eddy’s Question-Box

    • Babies, Needlework:

  • Take Care of the Baby’s Mother, Too by Dr. Josephine H. Kenyon
  • Everybody’s Doing Needlework! by Anne Orr

    • For the Children

  • Walt Disney’s Donald Duck – Donald’s Lucky Day – A 5-stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all featuring Donald Duck all on a single page
  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton

    • Poems:

  • “I Know a Country” by Daniel Whitehead Hicky
  • “Fear of Death” by Mary Tarbell
  • “Undiscovered” by C.R. Wylie, Jr.
  • “The Strong Go On” by Elaine V. Emans
  • “Epilogue” by Helene Mullins

  • “Winter Sports” by Pauline E. Soroka
  • “The Weaver” by Chesta Holt Fulmer
  • “Words” by Edgar Daniel Kramer
  • “To Mothers of Sons” by Margaret Hall Smith
  • “Masterpiece” by Deane Settoon Mernagh
  • “Lesson” by Violet Alleyn Storey

    • 1938-12 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

    1938/12 – Cover illustrated by Horace Gaffron

    Contents are as follows:

  • The Editor’s Page: Freedom – American Style

    • Fiction:

  • “American Legend” – Part 1 of 6 – by Pearl Buck and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “The Woman Who Couldn’t Keep Up” – A Short Story by Margaret Culkin Banning and illustrated by John Falter
  • “Miracle at Millersville” – A Short Story by Thyra Samter Winslow and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • “Morning Has a Way – A Short Story by Mary Hastings Bradley and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • “A Chair for the Captain” – A Short Story by Gordon Malherbe Hillman and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • “One Side of It” – A Short Story by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding and illustrated by Tran Mawicke
  • “The Town Cried Murder” — Part 4 of 6 — by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Stanley Parkhouse
  • “Strange Victory” – Part 5 of 5 – by Franken Meloney and illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum
  • “Eldest Daughter” — A Short Story by Margaret Weymouth Jackson and illustrated by Ray Prohaska

    • Special Features:

  • The Blight Before Christmas by Grace P. Smith
  • My Mother by Helen Topping Miller
  • Vacation Plot by Marjorie Hillis
  • Facts and Fiction by Alice Booth
  • Tom Whom It May Concern by James Hilton
  • No Traffic With the Devil by J.C. Furnas and illustrated by Peter Helck
  • What Did You Dream Last Night? by Maxine Davis
  • The Quirk Christmas Quiz by Arthur Gordon
  • Farewell to Dogs by Howard Stephenson

    • Fashions:

  • Leaves from a Designing Woman’s Datebook
  • To Keep Them Cutting In
  • Where Is the Wrapper of Yesteryear?
  • Make Clothes for Your Dolly – Knit a Bolero
  • Let Us Do Your Christmas Shopping

    • The Studio:

  • –And All Through the House
  • What Is a Set of Silver?

    • The Institute:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher

  • A Christmas Message
  • Tomorrow Is Christmas
  • Light On the Kitchen Work
  • Does Your Family Like Vegetables?
  • Christmas Gifts With a Story

  • More Christmas Gifts
  • Visits to the Grocer

    • The Beauty Clinic:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin

  • The Beauty Clinic
  • A Sweet Story
  • We Test and Tell

    • Good Housekeeping Bureau:

  • It’s Still Up to Us by Dr. Walter H. Eddy
  • Dr. Eddy’s Question-Box

    • Babies, Needlework, Etc.:

  • Babies Must Cry by Dr. Josephine H. Kenyon
  • Gifts to Make by Anne Orr

    • For the Children

  • Walt Disney’s Silly Symphony – Merbabies – A 5-stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all on a single page
  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton

    • Poems:

  • “Old Shepherd” by John Dillon
  • “Soul Flight” by Dorothy Lehman Sumeru
  • “Words Are My Only Riches” by Verna M. Hills
  • “Challenge!” by Mary Hallet
  • “Let the Children Play at Dying” by Frances White
  • Full-page color ad for Karo Syrup features the Dionne Quintuplets