“the first things girls her age bought”
You read how our ancestors grew up with no toilet paper until they got a Sears Roebuck catalog. Few article talk about how our female ancestors had to make do with no sanitary material. Apparently they used torn old sheets or any kind of cotton material. They would wash them and then lay them out in the son while the men were out working in the fields.
“lay them out in the son”
If you’d said “with” instead of “in”, could have been a Freudian slip...
And the term “Freudian slip” doesn’t mean Freud was trans, btw.