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)
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                              
                              
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                          Kotex Very
                              Personally Yours  
                            puberty & menstruation booklet, 1961
                            (complete)
                          
                            
                             
                            
                              
                                
                                  
                                    
                                      
                                        
                                          
                                            
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                                                P. 6
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                                                P. 7. Even doctors
                                                believed that menstrual
                                                  blood contained POISON. 
                                                I showed a cup
                                                with the average
amount
                                                  of blood lost
                                                during a period when
                                                this museum was in my
                                                house.
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                            See also How shall I
                              tell my daughter? and Personal Digest and
                             
                            read the whole booklet As
                              One Girl to Another (Kotex, 1940). Whole list of such booklets.
                            
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