1940/01 — Cover design: Painting by Jane Van Eyck – Border design by W.P. Schoonmaker

Contents as taken from the contents page and paging through the issue:

NOVEL COMPLETE IN THIS ISSUE:

Happiness by Mildred Cram and illustrated by Andrew Loomis

FICTION:

Steel Edges by Newlin B. Wildes and illustrated by Roy Spreter

She’s So Embarrassing by Margaret Culkin Banning and illustrated by John Falter

Better to Dwell– by Hugh MacNair Kahler and illustrated by Walter Biggs

If I Were a Boy Again by Dorothy Black

Another Woman — Part 4 of 5 by Mary Hastings Bradley and illustrated by Andrew Loomis

SPECIAL FEATURES:

No Ivory Tower

Peace and Power by Dorothy Thompson

What Do the Women of America Think? — About Psychic Phenomena

The First Fortnight by Rebecca West

Time of My Life — Part 2 of 7 — by Katharine Brush

Finished at Last by Henry F. Pringle is about GONE WITH THE WIND and cover 4 pages including 1 full page, 2 pages with 3/4 text and 1/4 ad, 1 page of half text, half ads. Opening page includes color photos of Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, and Leigh with Clark Gable

Your Chances of Making a Success of Marriage by Albert Edward Wiggins, D.Sc.

GENERAL FEATURES:

Look Before You Leap — The Sub-Deb by Elizabeth Woodward

Fifty Years Ago in the Journal

Journal About Town

As the Twig Is Bent — No. 9 by Leslie B. Hohman, M.D.

Birthmarks by Dr. Herman N. Bundesen

This Is a Thoughtless by Munro Leaf

Diary of Domesticity by Gladys Taber

Journal’s End by Ann Batchelder

Reference Library

FASHION AND BEAUTY:

One Wonderful Night and You the Star by Wilhela Cushman

Gifts … Gifts … Gifts by Ruth Mary Packard

Earmarked — Youth by Charlotte Johnson

There’s a Beautiful Answer to Your Christmas Gift Problem by Louise Paine Benjamin

You Might Consider by Peggy Stevenson

Snow Belles by Peggy Stevenson

Show Counsel — For Feet at Home by Wilhela Cushman

Like Mother–Like Daughter

FOOD AND HOMEMAKING:

Home for the Holidays by Ann Batchelder

Line a Day by Ann Batchelder

Recipes for the Holiday Hostess by Louella G. Shouer

Freedom of Choice by Grace L. Pennock

INTERIOR DECORATION AND GARDEN:

An All-Summer Perennial Path by Richard Pratt

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear by Henrietta Murdock

Indoor Spring by The Gardener’s Assistant

POETRY:

Climbing by Helen Springer Moran

Adversity by Nina Gertrude Smith

Late Christmas by Robert P. Tristram Coffin

Daughter-in-Law by Grace Noll Crowell

Pair by Paul Engle

Matin by David Morton

The Birthday of the Child by Madeline Mason

78 pages plus covers inside this oversized magazine