"That is all, darling, and now you know that Margaret was different today because it was for her the first day of the new purification. It was such a new event that she naturally felt like being quiet."

"Mother," said Marjorie May, "you are wonderful to have told me about this new experience I am soon to have. I shall feel quite a young lady when the new purification comes, because it will mean that I have grown up."

— To read the 10-page pamphlet from the '30s on how to talk to a young girl about menstruation, check it out here [1].