See Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (almost complete booklet, 1928, Kotex, Australia) (complete booklet, 1935, Canada) (cover, mid-1930s, U.S.A.) (complete booklet, 1938, U.S.A) Photo of Mary Pauline Collender, author of the Marjorie May stories Read a Personal Products booklet for older girls, The Periodic Cycle (1938). See similar booklets on this site. Health Facts on Menstruation, by Lloyd Arnold, M.D. (complete booklet, 1933, Kotex, U.S.A.) See also How shall I tell my daughter? and Personal Digest and 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 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) See also the booklets How shall I tell my daughter? (Modess, various dates), and Growing up and liking it (Modess, various dates) 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. Is this the first Tampax tampon? Go to Early Commercial Tampons Other early commercial tampons - Main Tampax patent - Ad from 1936 - World War II Tampax sign 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. CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could? Some MUM site links: homepage | MUM address & What does MUM mean? | e-mail the museum | privacy on this site | who runs this museum?? | Amazing women! | the art of menstruation | artists (non-menstrual) | asbestos | belts | bidets | founder bio | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | books: menstruation and menopause (and reviews) | cats | company booklets for girls (mostly) directory | contraception and religion | costumes | menstrual cups | cup usage | dispensers | douches, pain, sprays | essay directory | extraction | facts-of-life booklets for girls | famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | founder/director biography | gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux | humor | huts | links | masturbation | media coverage of MUM | menarche booklets for girls and parents | miscellaneous | museum future | Norwegian menstruation exhibit | odor | olor | pad directory | patent medicine | poetry directory | products, current | puberty booklets for girls and parents | religion | Religión y menstruación | your remedies for menstrual discomfort | menstrual products safety | science | Seguridad de productos para la menstruación | shame | slapping, menstrual | sponges | synchrony | tampon directory | early tampons | teen ads directory | tour of the former museum (video) | underpants & panties directory | videos, films directory | Words and expressions about menstruation | Would you stop menstruating if you could? | What did women do about menstruation in the past? | washable pads Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación. Personal Hygiene for Women Physiology & hygiene of menstruation booklet, 1928, complete, Kotex This might be one of the first booklets Kotex produced and was contemporaneous with the Marjorie May series for girls just starting their periods. It carefully shows how to cut up and flush a pad down the toilet. Do you carry scissors with you when you're menstruating? I wonder how many did then. Maybe that's a sign of how many women still stayed at home since Kotex often advertised to the upper reaches of society. It had to since it was expensive. See the contemporary Kotex booklet for girls Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (almost complete booklet, 1928, Kotex, Australia) and the complete booklet, 1935, Canada; cover, mid-1930s, U.S.A.; and the complete Marjorie May booklet, 1938, U.S.A. I thank again the retired-teacher contributor of many items and much information to this museum! Below: The booklet measures 3.5 x 6.25" (8.9 x 15.7 cm). The back is blank. The medium-weight paper throughout is the same color as the cover, a light blue, maybe faded and not the famous Kotex blue. All text and illustrations are black. NEXT | inside front cover & p. 3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10-11 12-13 14-15 (back cover is blank) See the contemporary Kotex Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (almost complete booklet, 1928, Kotex, Australia) (complete booklet, 1935, Canada) (cover, mid-1930s, U.S.A.) (complete booklet, 1938, U.S.A) Photo of Mary Pauline Collender, author of the Marjorie May stories Read a Personal Products booklet for older girls, The Periodic Cycle (1938). See similar booklets on this site. Health Facts on Menstruation, by Lloyd Arnold, M.D. (complete booklet, 1933, Kotex, U.S.A.) and read the whole booklet As One Girl to Another (Kotex, 1940). Whole list of such booklets. © 2007 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. 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