See a Kotex ad advertising a Marjorie May
booklet.
See many more similar booklets.
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.
More ads for teens (see also introductory
page for teenage advertising): Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and Quest napkin powder, 1948, U.S.A.),
Are you in the know? (Kotex
napkins and belts, 1949, U.S.A.)Are you in
the know? (Kotex napkins, 1953, U.S.A.),
Are you in the know? (Kotex
napkins and belts, 1964, U.S.A.), Freedom
(1990, Germany), Kotex (1992, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Saba (1975, Denmark)
See early tampons and a list of tampon on this site - at least the ones I've cataloged.
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The Periodic Cycle, menstruation booklet
in blue print for teenage girls (1938, The Personal Products Corp., maker
of Modess pads) Cover
In contrast to this pamphlet's probable companion, What
a trained nurse wrote to her young sister, Modess made this one for
older teenage girls.
It's more technical and gives a little cultural history for the girl
recovering from the trauma of having to menstruate in the first place, as
well as those who were happy to do so. In this, it's like the Kotex booklet
Preparing for Womanhood (1928, Australian edition).
It provides more information than the original Marjorie
May (1928) booklet by Kotex. And the language is more adult than Marjorie Learns About Life (1936, which, however, is
more fun to read), which did begin to get to the terrifying (for most mothers)
meat of the matter that most parents avoided - and avoid.
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