See some covers
of How shall I tell my daughter? and
an excerpt from the 1969
edition.
Marjorie May, three booklets, 1935 main page
See a Kotex ad
advertising this booklet.
See Kotex items: First ad
(1921; scroll to bottom of page) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck
catalog) - Lee
Miller ads (first real person in a
menstrual hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie May's Twelfth
Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928,
Australian edition; there are many links
here to Kotex items) - Preparing for
Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls;
Australian edition) - 1920s booklet in
Spanish showing disposal
method - box
from about 1969 - "Are you in the
know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) -
See more ads on the Ads
for Teenagers main page
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THE MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S
HEALTH
Sally and
Mary and Kate Wondered . . .
Puberty and menstruation booklet,
Modess. 1956, U.S.A.
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Personal Products Company, which
made Modess menstrual sanitary
pads and belts, also published
booklets explaining menstruation
and puberty for girls and their
parents, as did other companies,
such as Kimberly-Clark (Kotex;
sample booklets here) and
Tampax tampons (here).
This booklet is short and
elementary and seems almost
written to be read to really
young girls.
See ads
for menarche-education booklets: Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday
(Kotex, 1933), Tampax
tampons (1970, with Susan Dey) and
German o.b.
tampons (lower ad, 1981).
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Below:
The back cover is at left, the
front at the right. Each page
measures 5.5 x 7" (c. 14 x 17.5
cm).
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Covers,
pp. 1-2
3-4 5-6. See
some covers
of How shall I tell my
daughter? and an excerpt
from the 1969
edition. See
also Personal
Digest
and Growing
up and liking it from the
same company, and Lynn Peril's article
about such booklets.
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