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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Strictly
Feminine, menstruation
and puberty booklet for teenage
girls (1969, U.S.A., The Personal
Products Co., maker of Modess
pads)
with a
letter from a mother to her
daughter's doctor
I thank the Dutch contributor of
the scan of the letter!
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Below:
(Top) pp. 6-7
(Bottom) pp. 8-9
The picture
seems to be from the long,
famous Modess . . . .
because
ad series - and the last
paragraph confirms this!
In the first sentence there's
the essential word dainty
that appears in so many ads for
American menstrual products.
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