See ads
for menarche-education booklets: Marjorie May's Twelfth
Birthday (Kotex, 1932), Tampax tampons (1970,
with Susan Dey), Personal
Products (1955, with Carol Lynley),
and German o.b.
tampons (lower ad, 1981)
And read Lynn Peril's series about
these and similar booklets!
Read the full text of the 1935 Canadian edition
of Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, probably
identical to the American edition.
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The Kotex
puberty & menstruation booklet
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, 1929
Next page
(cover, pages 3, 4, 12-13, 14-15)
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Now the sales pitch starts for
Kotex (and continues today with
the several manufacturers who make
"starter kits" for girls, for
example, Tampax).
Click
on the colored links to see scenes
and advertising from the 1920s
and 1930s that Mrs. May and
Marjorie would have seen in
America, and possibly also in
Australia.
"Blood-stained
fluid" is the closest the
booklet gets to describing the
discharge, but the words are
accurate.
This copy of Marjorie May's
Twelfth Birthday is in the
collection of the Powerhouse
Museum, Sydney, Australia, and
is reproduced here with the kind
permission of the Curator of
Health and Medicine at that
museum.
© 1999 Harry Finley. It is
illegal to reproduce or distribute
any of the work on this Web site
in any manner or medium without
written permission of the author.
Please report suspected violations
to hfinley@mum.org
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