Read most of a 1928 Australian edition of Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday - Marjorie May Learns About Life (1936) - Facts About Menstruation that every Woman should know (1936)Marjorie May, three booklets, 1935 main pageRead Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets! And see the covers of the booklets How shall I tell my daughter? and Personal Digest; read the whole booklet As One Girl to Another (Kotex, 1940).See a Kotex ad advertising a Marjorie May booklet. See many more similar booklets.See a Modess True or False? ad in The American Girl magazine, January 1947, and actress Carol Lynley in "How Shall I Tell My Daughter" booklet ad (1955) - Modess . . . . because ads (many dates).DIRECTORY of all topics (See also the SEARCH ENGINE, bottom of page.)CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation
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Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday
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This folder came with the booklet inside the envelope.The Cellucotton Products Company, formed by Kimberly-Clark Corporation to manufacture and market Kotex menstrual pads and, in the late 1930s, Fibs tampons - K-C apparently didn't want to associate itself with menstruation - quickly spread to countries outside the U.S.A. in the 1920s. (See part of an early Kotex booklet in Spanish and a 1928 Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday published in Australia.)Kotex was eager to teach girls about menstruation because it often led to the user's buying the product for the rest of her menstruating life. Most mothers had long since avoided discussing the subject.The company makes a hilarious appeal (this page) to save money on something else, but please, NOT Kotex!I bought this booklet from the descendants of the family that received it from Kotex in 1934. Someone, maybe the girl's mother, wrote in the booklet. The handwriting looks very adult.In this Birthday, one of many editions, the author, Mary Pauline Callender (her photo) - if that is the author's real name - has toned down her language and done other editing of earlier editions. (Compare the first pages of the 1928 with this 1932 version.) But I still find some of the writing stilted and just plain bad (more comments here). I like As One Girl to Another, a slightly later Kotex booklet, better.I like the art deco designs on most pages. And unlike the other Marjorie May booklets at MUM (see some), this one is in color.Extended, as shown, the folder is about 9.3" x 5.25" (about 22.8 x 13.2 cm). |
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