Girls' Fun and Fashion Magazine #45

Mar 1950 · Parents' Magazine Press · 0.15 USD

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Girls' Fun and Fashion Magazine is an anthology issue featuring multiple content categories. A comic strip depicts a restaurant mishap where the cook burns all the toast and must improvise by purchasing bread to serve customers. The issue includes a "Valentines for" fashion feature showcasing spring wear such as a red cotton housecoat by Rojain and various decorative accessories priced around $1–$5. Additional regular features include "Hands Be Pretty, Hands Be Smooth," offering manicure advice for girls, and "Abe Lincoln's Whiskers," a historical piece recounting Abraham Lincoln's correspondence with a young girl named Grace Bedell regarding his famous beard.

Contains 3 stories

Business Woman

5 pp

Tizzie Wilkins dreams big about her future in business, so when Mrs. Ames asks her to mind the tea shop for an afternoon, she jumps at the chance to prove herself—only to discover that running a restaurant alone is far messier than she imagined. As disasters pile up from burnt toast to mixed orders to an unexpected health inspector, Tizzie learns that managing a thriving business takes a lot more than ambition and good intentions.

Palace Teacher

6 pp · Non-Fiction, Biography

Pencils Don LynchInks Don Lynch

Palace Teacher is a biographical account of Anna Leonowens, an English widow who arrives in Siam in 1862 to teach the King's sixty-seven children—a role that requires her to navigate an unfamiliar court and a skeptical prime minister. As she works with the royal family, particularly Prince Chulalongkorn, her lessons about democracy, human dignity, and the wider world begin to take root in ways that will reshape the nation. Beautifully illustrated by Don Lynch, this story captures how one teacher's courage and conviction planted seeds of reform that would flourish for decades to come.

Fascinatin’ Fashion – A True Story

4 pp