See Similar booklets made
by menstrual products companies.
Read a Personal Products booklet for older girls from about
this time, The Periodic Cycle (1938). See similar booklets on this site.
 
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"Just Between Us . . ." (Beltx puberty & menstruation
booklet,
U.S.A., 1950)
Complete booklet
For a discussion of wild-eyed Betty see the 1961 edition.
Betty Kay, the lady looking at you, above, seems
to be part of the most fun-loving booklets in American menstrual hygiene.
(But the British have made talking penis-like
tampons, a woman
clothed in a giant pad, etc.) She speaks in rhymes
under picture captions. Her wacky eyes transfix you like those spiral disks
you can spin. Advanced PMS? Beltx doesn't let on.
Which raises the question: How
in the heck do you pronounce Beltx?? I would've
thought maybe Beltz
would have been more appropriate and pronounceable. This violates Dr. Lillian
Gilbreth's pronunciation law.
See portions of the 1961 edition.
I thank the kind donor of the booklet!
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Below: The famous plain
brown wrapper for mailing the booklet covers the outside, just as
plain brown wrappers are meant to do: conceal naughty
material. Each page measures 5.125 x 7.25" (13 x 18.3 cm).
That looks like two (menstrual?) blood stains on the upper left side.
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