More things for travelers: Venus pads, (1930s-1940s?)
SEE the directory of all tampons on this site.
Read most of a 1928 Australian edition of the Kotex booklet Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, and read three mid-1930s booklets by Kotex, including a much-changed version of Marjorie May's twelfth Birthday.
Read Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets! And see covers of the booklets How shall I tell my daughter?, Growing up and liking it, and Personal Digest
Read the whole menarche booklet As One Girl to Another (Kotex, 1940).
See more Kotex items: First ad (1921) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck catalog) - Lee Miller ads (first real person in amenstrual 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.

Boxed menstrual pads and tampons for travelers

Traveling has always been a problem for women who menstruate. Disposable pads like Kotex, in 1921, greatly eased the burden by allowing women to throw out pads rather than keeping them, somewhere, to wash later. In the late 19th century women could buy small devices to take with them to burn cloth pads in hotel rooms or in rooms without fireplaces.

In 2000 women can often find free pads and tampons on airplanes, such as the ones below, freeing them of carrying pads or tampons with them.

 

 

Note the flowers, a common association with menstruation, not only because of the concealment of odor and the association with something "delicate" and "clean." "Flowers" was once a word meaning menstruation, although I doubt the manufacturer knew that.
Here's another flower.
From the U.S.A.
A first-year woman student at Northern Arizona University kindly donated the box in 2000.
From the U.S.A.
A first-year woman student at Northern Arizona University kindly donated the box in 2000.
From the U.S.A. 
A first-year woman student at Northern Arizona University kindly donated the box in 2000.

 

From the U.S.A.
A first-year woman student at Northern Arizona University kindly donated the box in 2000. 
Back of box at left. From the U.S.A. 
A first-year woman student at Northern Arizona University kindly donated the box in 2000.

From the U.S.A.
A first-year woman student at Northern Arizona University kindly donated the box in 2000. 
Back of box at left. From the U.S.A.
A first-year woman student at Northern Arizona University kindly donated the box in 2000.

More things for travelers: Venus pads, (1930s-1940s?)

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