Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.mum.org   Read the complete 1963 edition. See some covers of How shall I tell my daughter? and an excerpt from the 1969 edition. See the list of all such booklets on this site. See also Personal Digest and Growing up and liking it from the same company, and Lynn Peril's article about such booklets. Read most of a 1928 Australian edition of Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday. Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (1935) - Facts About Menstruation that every Woman should know (1936) - Marjorie May, introductory page, 1935 main page Read Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets! And see the covers of the booklets How shall I tell my daughter?, Growing up and liking it, and Personal Digest; read the whole booklet As One Girl to Another (Kotex, 1940). Marjorie May, three booklets, 1935 main page Read Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets! And see the covers of the booklets How shall I tell my daughter? and Personal Digest; read the whole booklet As One Girl to Another (Kotex, 1940). See a Kotex ad advertising this booklet. See Kotex items: First ad (1921; scroll to bottom of page) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck catalog) - Lee Miller ads (first real person in a menstrual hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928, Australian edition; there are many links here to Kotex items) - Preparing for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls; Australian edition) - 1920s booklet in Spanish showing disposal method - box from about 1969 - "Are you in the know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) - See more ads on the Ads for Teenagers main page DIRECTORY of all topics (See also the SEARCH ENGINE, bottom of page.) CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could? Some MUM site links: homepage | LIST OF ALL TOPICS | MUM address & What does MUM mean? | e-mail the museum | privacy on this site | who runs this museum?? | Amazing women! | the art of menstruation | artists (non-menstrual) | asbestos | belts | bidets | founder bio | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | books: menstruation and menopause (and reviews) | cats | company booklets for girls (mostly) directory | contraception and religion | costumes | menstrual cups | cup usage | dispensers | douches, pain, sprays | essay directory | extraction | facts-of-life booklets for girls | famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | founder/director biography | gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux | humor | huts | links | masturbation | media coverage of MUM | menarche booklets for girls and parents | miscellaneous | museum future | Norwegian menstruation exhibit | odor | olor | pad directory | patent medicine | poetry directory | products, current | puberty booklets for girls and parents | religion | Religión y menstruación | your remedies for menstrual discomfort | menstrual products safety | science | Seguridad de productos para la menstruación | shame | slapping, menstrual | sponges | synchrony | tampon directory | early tampons | teen ads directory | tour of the former museum (video) | underpants & panties directory | videos, films directory | Words and expressions about menstruation | Would you stop menstruating if you could? | What did women do about menstruation in the past? | washable pads Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación. How shall I tell my Daughter? Puberty and menstruation booklet, Modess. 1969, U.S.A. Complete booklet This is probably an early mixed-race booklet. The menstrual products companies had for decades aimed for a white American market. The Sixties and Seventies changed the face of advertising! Personal Products Company, besides making menstrual pads, also published booklets explaining menstruation and puberty for girls and their parents (mothers), as did other companies, such as Kimberly-Clark (Kotex; sample booklets here) and Tampax tampons (here). See the ad the teenage Carol Lynley, later an actress, made for these booklets, and see other ads for menarche-education booklets: Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1933), Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey) and German o.b. tampons (lower ad, 1981). See also Personal Digest and Growing up and liking it from the same company, and Lynn Peril's article about such booklets. See Modess belts here, the famous Modess ad campaign and how Modess sanitary napkins began. This booklet is meant for mothers. See the complete 1963 edition. See the list of all such booklets on this site. Below: Front cover. The booklet, of coated (shiny) paper, measures the odd size of 5.25 x 9" (3.2 x 22.8 cm). I suspect this is one of the earliest portrayals of non-whites in an American menstruation booklet. Just the decade before Kotex wrote "your lily-white hand" in its etiquette booklet for teenagers - white ones, by implication. Strangely, daughter is capitalized in the title but not in the 1963 edition. Below: Back cover. NEXT | Covers, inside front cover & p.1, pp. 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15, 16-17, 18-19, 20-21. See the complete 1963 edition. See some covers of How shall I tell my daughter? and an excerpt and funny story from the 1969 edition. See also Personal Digest and Growing up and liking it from the same company, and Lynn Peril's article about such booklets. See a list of all such booklets on this site. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.mum.org   © 2007 Harry Finley. It is illegal to reproduce or distribute any of the work on this Web site in any manner or medium without written permission of the author. Please report suspected violations to hfinley@mum.org