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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Preparing for Womanhood, menstruation & puberty
booklet by Kotex, 1920s, sample page
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The explanation is straightforward.
Do most schoolgirls know today that "mensis" means month?
Does 99 percent of the population? A "classical education" was
fading but still prevalent in the 1920s.
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By the kind permission of the Curator of Health
and Medicine
at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia, I am able to
show you part of this Australian edition in the collection
of the Powerhouse Museum. (Please direct any further enquiries to
Megan Hicks at meganh@phm.gov.au)
© 1999 Harry Finley. It is illegal to reproduce
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