Dates
- Cover date
- Spring 1950
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- A Home for My Heart · 11 pages
Connie is risk-averse: she doesn’t want her father to buy a larger grocery store, and she worries her fiancé Dick will fail his big league baseball try-out and quit the sport. She falsely tells a scout that Dick has a sore arm so he isn’t signed; Dick finds out and breaks up with her. Connie changes her ways and urges her father to buy the new store. Dick gets a second try-out and succeeds, but he goes off with Kitty, who never lost faith in him. Connie is left alone.
- Moment of Regret · 9 pages
Marion lives on a farm with her parents but hates it. She gets a job in the city as ad executive Lyle’s secretary. Marion and Lyle fall in love, but she pretends to be sophisticated, denying her rural heritage even though he seems to admire that lifestyle. When he shows her a country house, she disparages it and Lyle breaks up with her. Marion goes home and resumes her farm life, even winning a prize at the county fair. Lyle is there and they are reunited.
- But Love Came Along · 2 pages
- No Faith in Love · 10 pages
Ruth studies photography and is quite talented, but feels inferior around professionals. One of her photos wins a prize and she meets photographer Wade: they hit it off, but Ruth decides to avoid him so she won’t feel inferior. Instead, she dates Hal, who’s not as expert as she. Wade hires Ruth as his assistant and they fall in love, but her continued insecurity is an issue. She substitutes her photo for one of Wade’s, which hurts his reputation, and they break up. Ruth changes her ways and signs up for a class taught by Wade, and they reconcile.