Marjorie May, three
booklets, 1935 main
page
See a Kotex ad
advertising this booklet.
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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 booklets in between.
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?).
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P. 16.
For decades Tampax
has dealt with hymens
in
ads and publications
and in the Tampax
corporate history,
where it discusses
tampons' danger
to morality
feared by Catholic
priests and
anxious mothers - and
others.
Kotex made different tampons
over the years, for
example
Fibs (below),
and maybe the first
commercial menstrual
tampons of all,
in the early 1930s.
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P. 17.
See what Kotex
was made
of - Cellucotton
- and read about its start.
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See the page's
enlargement below this
image.
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Inside
back cover. A
previous owner filled
in two date blocks.
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Below:
Enlargement of p. 18 shows the
drawings better.
Wikipedia writes this about
Mademoiselle
magazine, which
lived from 1935 to 2001:
In 1952, Sylvia
Plath's short story Sunday
at the Mintons won first
prize and $500, as well
as publication in the magazine.
Her experiences during the
summer of 1953 as a
guest editor at Mademoiselle
provided the basis for her
novel, The Bell Jar.
The August 1961 "college issue"
of "Mademoiselle" included a
photo of UCLA
senior class president Willette
Murphy, who did not
realize she was making history
as the
first
African-American model to
appear in a mainstream fashion
magazine.
Somebody
traced
a drawing with a
pencil
in the paragraph starting
with "Lie on back."
See an ad for Kurb
tablets, discussed at the bottom
of the page.
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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")
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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)
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copyright 2007 Harry Finley
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