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.
 
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The Kotex puberty & menstruation booklet
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, 1929
Next page (cover,
pages 3, 4, 12-13, 14-15)
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Now the sales pitch starts for Kotex (and continues today with the several
manufacturers who make "starter kits" for girls, for example,
Tampax).
Click on the colored links to
see scenes and advertising from the 1920s and 1930s that Mrs. May and Marjorie
would have seen in America, and possibly also in Australia.
"Blood-stained fluid" is the
closest the booklet gets to describing the discharge, but the words are
accurate.
This copy of Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday is in the collection
of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia, and is reproduced here with
the kind permission of the Curator of Health and Medicine at that museum.
© 1999 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. Please report suspected violations to hfinley@mum.org
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