Read a Personal Products booklet for older girls from about this time,
The Periodic Cycle (1938). See similar
booklets on this site.
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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"What a trained nurse wrote to her young
sister,"
black-and-white menstruation & puberty booklet
(probably late 1930s or early 1940s,
The Personal Products Corp., U.S.A., maker of Modess pads)
Cover
In style, this Modess booklet shows the progression from the stuffiness
of the older Marjorie May (from Kotex) pamphlets of the late
1920s and 1930s, to the relaxed booklets of
the 1940s and beyond. (See a complete
list of these booklets on this site.)
Modess invokes here the authority and comfort of medicine, a common
device in the history of menstrual products (Modess put a cross
on its boxes and pads, as did Kotex, and many
companies trumpet the fact that doctors invented its tampons and pads, for
example, Tampax and o.b.). But at least this authority is a woman,
and a family member, rather than a distant, male doctor. But she still explains
things by letter - and, of course, it's not her mother.
This booklet seems to be a companion to its guide for older girls, The Periodic Cycle (1938).
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