See later ads for flushable pads and a box
of Society napkins, from the 1920s-1930s, supposedly
flushable, and a 1928 booklet (Preparing for Womanhood)
describing this technique.
See a prototype of the first Kotex ad.
See more Kotex items: Ad 1928 (Sears
and Roebuck catalog) - Marjorie May's Twelfth
Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928, Australian edition; there are many
links here to Kotex items) - 1920s booklet in Spanish showing disposal
method - box from about 1969 - Preparing
for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls) - "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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Instructions for the disposal of Kotex menstrual
pads, 1920s, in Spanish
In the Wallace Meyer collection of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
one can see this booklet from the 1920s in Spanish describing Kotex. Women
disposed of Kotex by taking it apart and flushing the parts down the toilet.
The company changed its directions later because of the problems with stopped-up
toilets (see the report from Dr. Lillian Gilbreth
in 1927). Other companies have introduced pads supposedly capable of being
flushed - links below and at left - but many
don't seem to survive the test of plumbing.
See later ads for flushable pads and a box
of Society napkins, from the 1920s-1930s, supposedly
flushable, and a 1928 booklet (Preparing for Womanhood)
describing this technique.
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