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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