Next Weekend Your MUM's on Television
That means no site update next weekend (the next
update will be 16 January), or at least that's what the plan is now. If all goes as expected, I'll
report to you about it, since it involves the museum.
But MUM's the
word about further information! You'll understand when I tell you about it.
There May Be More Site
Disruptions
This site has still not moved to its new Web provider;
when that happens, it could disappear for a day or two (I hope not), and
your e-mail may return to you. Send it again in a few days if that happens.
I can't wait for this move to be over!
Letters to Your MUM
I direct this writer to the second letter, below, for one answer:
This is great and all to teach girls about themselves, but why make a museum? It isn't like everybody is gonna take
their parents to this place.
Actually, some are going to take their
parents - this happened in the real museum, and I think they profited more
than the children. Women's health and the story of menstruation are everybody's
concern; I know that because of the stupidity
I have faced because of this museum. Even intelligent people behave strangely
when confronted with talk about menstruation. You know this because you
too are intelligent - right?
Your MUM helps out with the most-asked question:
To Whom It May Concern:
I am writing to you because I found your site very interesting, and
had answered some of my questions.
One day I was sitting talking to my mother and I asked the question,
"Mom, what kind of pads did you use, and what
did Grandma use?" I and a few others have made comments about
the first pad [look at the first widely sold disposable
pad in the U.S.A.] and tampon and we were
just curious.
My mother's reply was that she used rags,
and she thought Grandma used rags, too. Since I was curious and wondered
about what Grandmother used, I searched for an answer, and no luck.
Well, one day I was looking at a site for the Y2K, and someone had
a pattern for a pad, I couldn't believe what I was seeing [here are old German patterns for pads]. But soon the site
led me to your site, and I finally found the answers I was searching for
for ages. I know you might not understand why I was asking the question
[I do!], but I was just curious to what they used back in the olden times.
I am now a mother of a daughter who I know will soon be starting her menstruation
soon, [here are some old booklets companies
made to explain menstruation to girls] and knowing she will begin to ask
the same questions I was searching for.
I must express my gratitude for your site, and answering the questions
I believe every women asks one time in her life time or even thought about.
Sincerely,
It's ABOUT TIME! Is this the new millennium?
This site has a good explanation - it walks you through, with tables
yet!
According to the U.S. Naval Observatory [Washington, D.C., the timekeeper
for the U.S.A.] the end of the second millennium
and the beginning of the third will be reached on January 1, 2001 [not
2000!]
This date is based on a calendar created in 526 A.D. by Dennis the
Diminutive, the head of a Roman monastery who forged a common calendar
from the divergent dating systems of his day.
Help Wanted: This Museum Needs a
Public Official For Its Board of Directors
Your MUM is doing the paper work necessary to become eligible to receive
support from foundations as a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. To achieve
this status, it helps to have a American public official - an elected or
appointed official of the government, federal, state or local - on its board of directors.
What public official out there
will support a museum for the worldwide culture of
women's health and menstruation?
Eventually I would also like to entice people experienced in the law,
finances and fund raising to the board.
Do You Have Irregular Menses?
If so, you may have polycystic ovary syndrome
[and here's a support association for it].
Jane Newman, Clinical Research Coordinator at Brigham
and Women's Hospital, Harvard University School of Medicine, asked
me to tell you that
Irregular menses identify women at high risk for polycystic ovary syndrome
(PCOS), which exists in 6-10% of women of
reproductive age. PCOS is a major cause of infertility
and is linked to diabetes.
Learn more about current
research on PCOS at Brigham and Women's
Hospital, the University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania State University
- or contact Jane Newman.
If you have fewer than six
periods a year, you may be eligible to participate
in the study!
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to reproduce or distribute work on this Web site in any manner or medium
without written permission of the author. Please report suspected violations
to hfinley@mum.org