Read a Personal Products booklet for older
                            girls, The Periodic
                              Cycle (1938). See similar booklets
                            on this site.
                          
                          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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                          Kotex Very
                                Personally Yours  
                              puberty & menstruation booklet, 1948
                              (complete)
                          
                            
                          
                          
                            
                              
                                
                                  
                                    Below:
                                      Page 19 & inside back cover 
                                      The body of the calendar uses the
                                      same typeface as the 1940 edition
                                      of As One Girl to Another,
                                      which uses that type for the
                                      title, unlike this booklet.
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