Marjorie May, three
booklets, 1935 main
page
See a Kotex ad
advertising this booklet.
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As
one Girl to Another- ("one" is
not capitalized in the booklet's title)
1943, "new edition"
Puberty & menstruation booklet from
International Cellucotton Products Co.
(Kotex), 1943, U.S.A.
This is
essentially a reprint of the 1940 edition,
maybe the first edition of this
booklet.
Because its calendar
shows the last half of 1940 through
all of 1941 and this one covers 1944
to the first half of 1945 there were
probably some As one Girl to
Anothers in between.
The great (just my opinion) Irving
Nurick might have illustrated
the "As one Girl To Another"
booklets although the style is looser
than his
other Kotex contributions.
1940
edition.
See an
ad offering this
free booklet. And see a tin of
Quest powder (and
an ad for it). Kotex, on page
10, recommended sprinkling the
powder on pads to stop the
odor. (Read what
causes the odor of
menstruation.) The booklet
mentions Fibs tampon, the Kotex
tampon, developed in the
1930s, on page 16. Fibs had no
applicator, unlike its main
competitor, the two-tube
Tampax (read and see the first
Tampax?).
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Below:
Back cover of the 5
1/4 x 7 5/8" (13.5 x
19.5 cm) booklet.
Only one
staple held
these pages together.
This was the middle of
the Second World War
and the government
probably restricted
the use of metal,
better used in armaments.
The earlier (1940)
booklet had two
staples.
See a Kotex ad
from this year, 1943,
with
patriotic themes.
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Below:
Front
cover:
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Below:
Inside front cover
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Below:
This
preface
shows the origin
of the title and a
violation of the
American Strunk &
White style (r".) -
but so what,
right?
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Next page
Go to covers
& preface | pages
1-3 ("lollipops to
lipsticks,""You're YOURSELF!,"
definition), | 4-7
(duration, cramps, use a calendar
and "don't get caught unprepared")
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8-11 ("warning
signals,"Kotex will never give
your secret away,""daintiness,"
cleanliness, sports) | 12-15
("But don't miss the fun!," "boys
know all about menstruation," do's
and don't's chart) | 16-19
(tampons, use Kotex, cramps
exercises, inside back cover
Kotex calendar 1944-45)
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