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As one Girl to Another ("one" is not capitalized in the booklet's title)
1943, "new edition"
Puberty & menstruation booklet from
International Cellucotton Products Co. (Kotex), 1943, U.S.A.

Discussion.

See the similar 1940 edition, maybe the first of this booklet. Because its calendar shows the last half of 1940 through all of 1941 and this one covers 1944 to the first half of 1945 there must have been some in between.

A famous Kotex booklet before this one.

See an ad offering this free booklet. And see a tin of Quest powder (and an ad for it). Kotex, on page 10, recommended sprinkling the powder on pads to stop the odor. (Read what causes the odor of menstruation.) The booklet mentions Fibs tampon, the Kotex tampon, developed in the 1930s, on page 16. Fibs had no applicator, unlike its main competitor, the two-tube Tampax (read and see the first Tampax?).

Below: P. 12.

I love it: "And dashing around violently brandishing a weapon of sport jiggles you up." Read more zippy Kotex 40s language, priceless stuff. No one signed the drawings but I think Irving Nurick drew them.
Below:  P. 13.                                    

Below: P. 14.
Below P. 15. There Kotex goes again!: "Jumping and skipping rope jiggle you up!"

Next page
Go to covers & preface | pages 1-3 ("lollipops to lipsticks,""You're YOURSELF!," definition), | 4-7  (duration, cramps, use a calendar and "don't get caught unprepared") | 8-11 ("warning signals,"Kotex will never give your secret away,""daintiness," cleanliness, sports) | 12-15 ("But don't miss the fun!," "boys know all about menstruation," do's and don't's chart) | 16-19 (tampons, use Kotex, cramps exercises,  inside back cover Kotex calendar 1944-45)

A famous Kotex booklet before this one.


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