See some covers of How shall I tell my daughter? and an excerpt from the 1969 edition.
See also Personal Digest and Growing up and liking it from the same company, and Lynn Peril's article about such booklets.
Read most of a 1928 Australian edition of Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday. Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (1935) - Facts About Menstruation that every Woman should know (1936) - Marjorie May, introductory page, 1935 main page
Read Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets! And see the covers of the booklets How shall I tell my daughter?, Growing up and liking it, and Personal Digest; read the whole booklet As One Girl to Another (Kotex, 1940).
Marjorie May, three booklets, 1935 main page
Read Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets! And see the covers of the booklets How shall I tell my daughter? and Personal Digest; read the whole booklet As One Girl to Another (Kotex, 1940).
See a Kotex ad advertising this booklet.
See Kotex items: First ad (1921; scroll to bottom of page) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck catalog) - Lee Miller ads (first real person in a menstrual hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928, Australian edition; there are many links here to Kotex items) - Preparing for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls; Australian edition) - 1920s booklet in Spanish showing disposal method - box from about 1969 - "Are you in the know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) - See more ads on the Ads for Teenagers main page

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THE MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH

Sally and Mary and Kate Wondered . . . Puberty and menstruation booklet, Modess. 1956, U.S.A.


Read a discussion of the booklet.

See Modess belts here, the famous Modess ad campaign and how Modess sanitary napkins began.

Below: Pp. 5-6. On page 6 the book suggests asking your mother if you have further questions about menstruation. HA! Many women museum visitors (when it was in my house) told me their mothers wanted to avoid talking about the subject. One college student said her physician mother somehow detected that she had started her first period. She handed her a box of pads and said, "Here, use these." End of discussion - actually, no discussion. But another college student said her mother found her on her bed trying to insert a tampon for the first time. Her mother said, "Let me show you how," and put it in for her. The student said it was one of the wonderful moments of her life. Oh, the stories.

END | Covers, pp. 1-2 3-4 5-6. See some covers of How shall I tell my daughter? and an excerpt from the 1969 edition. See also Personal Digest and Growing up and liking it from the same company, and Lynn Peril's article about such booklets.
 
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