See Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (almost complete booklet, 1928, Kotex, Australia)
(complete booklet, 1935, Canada) (cover,
mid-1930s, U.S.A.) (complete booklet, 1938, U.S.A)
Photo of Mary Pauline Collender, author of
the Marjorie May stories
Read a Personal Products booklet for older girls, The
Periodic Cycle (1938). See similar booklets
on this site.
Health Facts on Menstruation, by Lloyd
Arnold, M.D. (complete booklet, 1933, Kotex, U.S.A.)
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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Personal Hygiene for Women
Physiology & hygiene of menstruation booklet, 1928, complete,
Kotex
This might be one of the first booklets Kotex produced and was contemporaneous
with the Marjorie May series for girls just starting
their periods.
It carefully shows how to cut up and flush a
pad down the toilet. Do you carry scissors with you when you're menstruating?
I wonder how many did then. Maybe that's a sign of how many women still
stayed at home since Kotex often advertised to the upper
reaches of society. It had to since it was expensive.
See the contemporary Kotex booklet for girls Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (almost complete booklet,
1928, Kotex, Australia) and the complete booklet,
1935, Canada; cover, mid-1930s, U.S.A.; and the
complete Marjorie May booklet, 1938, U.S.A.
I thank again the retired-teacher contributor of many items and much
information to this museum!
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Below: The booklet measures 3.5 x 6.25"
(8.9 x 15.7 cm).
The back is blank. The medium-weight paper throughout is the same color
as the cover, a light blue, maybe faded and not the famous Kotex
blue. All text and illustrations are black.
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