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
Last pages (Cover, pages 3, 4, 11, 12-13)
The Kotex advertising pitch is
humorously heavy-handed; it's
since become more subtle.
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.
END
See all company
booklets - Read the
full text of the 1935 Canadian
edition of Marjorie May's
Twelfth Birthday, probably
identical to the American edition.
(Cover
of 1928 edition, pages 3, 4, 11, 12-13)
© 1999 Harry Finley. It is
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any of the work on this Web site
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