Today’s Housewife
You ask me to give you some indication of the fiction requirements of Today’s Housewife. I can give you this very briefly: About all that we require is that the story shall be clean and interesting. It may deal with the home and child interest, it may be a married love story, a young love story, a humorous story or one of adventure and mystery. There must be no sex problem; no repulsive crime. It may be as much of a thriller as any one can desire, but it must lead to ultimate good; it must leave the reader in a satisfied frame of mind, although this does not necessarily mean that it needs have a “happy ending.” It must have a satisfactory ending and it must lead the reader along an upward path. We like our stories to be full of action, plenty of sparkling dialogue, and they must be well written. We use but few stories in Today’s Housewife, but we demand that these be of an excellent type.
Della T. Lutes.
Today’s Housewife.
Cooperstown, N.Y.