Leona
Chalmer's 1937
book with a
drawing of a cup.
And
read comments from people who have
used a cup.
Do cups
cause endometriosis? Not enough evidence,
says the FDA.
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A History of the
Menstrual Cup (continued)
Daintette, an early
cup
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The white material
is possibly Dainty Maid Powder,
mentioned in the Dainty Maid
literature. Compare
this cup to other cups. ("Mrs.
Mary Coleman," Middlefield,
Connecticut, possibly a company,
generously gave the cup to this
museum.)
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The Dainty Maid, Inc., company
of Middlefield, Connecticut
(U.S.A.), made the Daintette
reusable menstrual cup, possibly
before Leona
Chalmers made her cup in the
late 1930s. That would
possibly make it the first
menstrual cup. (Read excerpts
from her book The Intimate
Side of a Woman's Life,
1937, Pioneer Publications, Inc.,
Radio City, New York.)
See parts of the patents and the
box for the cup, below.
See instructions for the cup
pictured (box is at the bottom
of this page); information about the
Dainty Maid douche apparatus
(and see a set); and covers
of Mon Docteur and Daintette booklets; items the company
sold (sells?); "unsolicited
testimonial
letters," and ads in
newspapers seeking women
to sell the product at
parties.
Long
download time, large files!
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The Daintette box
cites these two patents,
above and left, as the basis for
the cup.
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Above we see two of
the six sides of a Daintette box.
The box is off-white with black
writing and a green logo (the
woman's profile); see box at
right. (Box photocopy courtesy of
the Finney County Historical
Society, Garden City, Kansas,
U.S.A., whose e-mail in 1998
asking me what in the world this
was alerted me to Daintette's
existence. Further e-mails led to
my contacting the town clerk in
Middlefield, Connecticut, to find
the manufacturer, which the clerk
did for me. Many thanks!)
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Another box for
Daintette; this one contains the
cup pictured at the top of the
page. (Date unknown. Contributed
to this museum, with the cup, by
"Mrs. Mary Coleman," Middlefield,
Connecticut, possibly a company)
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See instructions for the cup
pictured (box is at the bottom
of this page); information about the
Dainty Maid douche apparatus
(and see a set); and covers
of Mon Docteur and Daintette booklets; items the company
sold (sells?); "unsolicited
testimonial
letters," and ads in
newspapers seeking women
to sell the product at
parties.
© 1998 Harry Finley. It is
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any of the work on this Web site
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