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Show Ifow to west YourJmMS A Lesson in Thrift by the Witty French Artiste Who Explains Ex-plains the Folly of Giving Away Anything You May Need and the Wisdom of Six Thrifty Rules By Gaby 1 . It to hard to get but harder to keep. 2. It to as foolish to think yon an going to get something for nothing aa it to to give some thing for nothing. 3. The fortunes that the few win on big odds are made up of the money of those who have lost on the other odda. Illustrating Gaby's Adaptation of the Old Sew, That "A Bird in the Hand U Worth Two in the Buah." Holding on to Everything You Have 4- A dollar is nothing beyond what it paid for and what it will actually ac-tually buy Fortunato's purse was lost centuries ago. 5. Value for value 'is the only safe rule of Investment Every scheme that promises you hundreds hun-dreds of per cent gain has only one real fact the promoter wants your money. 6. Study the ingredienta of your In vestments with the same thoroughness thor-oughness as those of your face cream. If yon wouldn't risk your face, why risk your fortune? for-tune? , :v dinner after the theatre I charge him from 1100 to $500. Why should I not? He waaU me to go with htm either because he get enjoyment by my charm, my conversation, my dresses, or to be able to say "I hare dined with Oeb Dealys" and to get whatever reclame may coma from that In either case I am performing Mrrlcea which hare a dlaUnct value. I do not want to eat hla dinner I can bay my own and enjoy It just aa much. I do not And hla oonTeraatlon necessary for divertissement di-vertissement I can divert myself aa well. My time Is being taken up. And we hare nothing but time to do aomethlng In. "But you can be aeen at the Winter Oar-den Oar-den for a hundredth part of that!" you say. True, bat not Individually. There people come to see me In maasa, and therefore the price of admission Is baaed upon the number num-ber of seels. It a a co-operative price. But It oas maa wanted to aee ma act at the Winter Win-ter Garden and wanted to have no one else around him ha would have to buy up all the seats la the house, or pay a price which would be oonalderably more than 1100. People Peo-ple coma to the theatre to aee me and willingly will-ingly pay. Why should I charge nothing for being taken to dinner by a man when he would not aspect to come and see me act for nothing? This la businesslike and right. In the same way I charge for riding In an automobile or for walking down the avenue with a man. or for dropping Into some smart place for luncheon. It la right. He geta aomethlng or he would not waata hla time; what he geta he should pay for. I charge the artlat who wishes to paint my picture. Moat women do unoonactoualy what I do conaeloualy. A jeune famine, a young girl, will take the trouble to adorn herself In her best, to act her beat, to be aa aprlghtly aa poealble with a young man. Why? Because she expects her payment In marriage. An older woman will do the aama with her husband. hus-band. Why? Because ahe. too. wanta something some-thing to keep him, perhaps, or get an auto, or a theatre box or what not. Or ahe doea It for othera becauae ahe wanta admiration. Whatever It la, aha expacta to get aomethlng for It. I want her to know Juat what ahe wanta. to go about getting It Intelligently, to do nothing for nothing, and to do wisely with what ahe gets. I knew a very charming little actreaa In Paris. Mathilda Parol. Mathllde could have been rich. But there waa a girl friend, auch a charming, delicate little friend. And thla little friend wanted to be a great opera singer, and aha had the voice to he It Ma- By GABY DKSI.YS. (The Pert Star ef Ike Wlsln Oeraea. Mew Terkwt I HAVE been condemned for being mar canary. I am more than mercenary I keep that which I have gotten. It la mj purpose to-day to tall my woman rsadsrs why 1 am mercenary and why they also ahould be mercenary, and mainly to tall them how to invest that which they have gotten. In this world you give aomethlng for nothing noth-ing for Juat four reasons because you are In love, becauae you do not care, because you are vain, or beoauae you expect to get some thing more valuable than that which you have relinquished Those who do the tint are emotional foola; tboae who do the second srs thrlftleaa foola; thoae who do the third are barbarous foola. and tboae who do the fourth srs wlae only If they play what you call here an absolutely aafe bet. But she who glvea nothing away la alwaya wlae. We live In a fighting world Self preserve tlou Is atlll the drat law of nature. There Is no mercy, no beauty, no softness and no gentleneaa In nature beyond the accidental and the Illusion of theae things' we create for oureelvea. By an aocldent of seasons a waste becomes In June a smiling plain of flowers, and. lo! we praise the gentleneaa of nature; and, by another accident of seasons, that name plain becomea, In January, a raging rag-ing wsate of cold and storm In which all living thlnga muat periah, and. lo! we condemn con-demn the harahnesa and cruelty of nature. And It If the same nature. The aun ahlnea for a few daya and coaxea out a multitude of tender little buds, and then the cold aweepa down and destroys them. The mood In your dearest friend which to-day calls forth all your gsneroalty, your gentleneaa. may change to morrow Into a mood that repels you flnalement. The aun haa called forth the buds and. lo! the cold baa come and nipped them. And so, If you have given unwlaely the dsy before, why. today to-day you are atrlpped and unfit to protect yourself in the sternal warfare. Softness, gentleneaa, mercy, generoslty-theee generoslty-theee are nature's veils Underneath them la the atern. hard rock of the first law self preservation. But Understand me -I do not bellcvn. nor do I wlah to Impart the thought tha. these are not splendid, great tblnga. They are. Beauty la beauty, no matter what Ilea behind It. and geueroalty and gentleness srs reel even If they do melt sway under atreaa. It la that 1 would not have you be blinded to the great realltlea that underlie these things, to fall Into the trap of believing them all In an In this world I bsve found only one great, constructive, safe truth It la thla: Everv agalnat reality. A franc Is nothing la Itself beyond what It paid for and what It can buy. It Is no Aladdin's lamp to be rubbed. For tunato'a purse went out with the fairies. Value for value Is the only safe rule to follow. And I never Invest unleaa t can clearly aee value for value. I have never been able to aee It in schemes that promlae hundreds of per .cent returns. Alwaya In theae I see only one certain thing that the promoter wanta my money. What you earn, what your value la or what you can make people think la your value, that la yours. It Is your foundation. The moment you begin to lot aome one Juggle Jug-gle with that actual earned money you invite in-vite prestidigitation and you usually get It I never gamble. It la very hard to get together a thousand, two thousand, ten thousand. The trouble Is that when one has It the hope for more becomea be-comea ao powerful. We mistake our hope for poaalblllty. We fool ouraelvea with hope Just aa we do with sentiment. There should be no hope. There only ought to be cool, careful thoughtful calculation of cauae and effect. A man or woman who puta a thousand thou-sand dollars In a scheme that promises them ten thousand in a year juat becauae they want ten thouaand la exactly on the plane of the man or woman who commits a crime on the theory that they won't be found out Juat because they don't want to be. I atudy the Ingredienta of my Investments with as much care to detail aa I do the ingredients in-gredients of the cream I put on my face. I wouldn't riak my beauty on something I did not know all about why ahould I risk my money? "Two per cent In the hand la worth eer-enteen eer-enteen per cent In the buBh." Enough of finance. Next I shall tell you why almost all actors and actressea are vain, brainless puppets. Gaby Deslys aa Charming Money-Taker, Contemplating Her Favorite Financial Motto. She Also Shows for Contemplation of Others a Few of the Great Pearls in Which Some of Her Savings Are Invested. clal window: "Two per cent In the hand Is worth seventeen per cent In the buah." I play aafe. 1 save every franc, every aou, over my neceeaary expenaes, and. of a surety, they Sill ! I To Be Pointed Out as Your Companion on Fifth Avenue I Charge $250. I will appear Intensely interested in your conversation. con-versation. I will acknowledge the bows of your friends. (Luncheon not to exceed ona hour Included in his rate.) To Grace Your Automobile Auto-mobile for Two Hours I Charge You $150. I will converse brightly and wittily. I will wear my most charming motoring few a. Luncheon la not I n-rluded. n-rluded. For rstes on this, aee special card. To Make You the Envy of All Other Diners I Charge You $500. I will wear the moat attractive at-tractive French gown. I will gaxe into your eyes aa though enraptured enrap-tured by you. I will toaal you with three glasaes of champagne. thing that la worth having Is worth paying for. Nature glvea nothing for nothing. We must pay in effort. If nothing elae, for the amalleat thing. The history of humanity haa been a constant struggle to pay the lowest price It can. and thla habit of the race la reflected In the Individual who cunatantly tries to get the most he can for nothing. Life la a business, and the sooner It la put on bualneaa principles the better for all of ua. The thing you create ia worth ao much, the aervlces you render are worth ao much, the pleasure you give by your beauty or your charm of your Intelligence is wortb ao much. If It Is worth nothing or little, yeu have no juat complaint about receiving little or noth lng. If It la wortb much. It must be your object to get much for It. But It Is the value In Itself thst should count. It ahould not be aid so many dollars more because of emotional emo-tional illusions Nor should you give it away for any emotional tlluaion. "There la no aentiment In business" this is your theatrical rule that la a reproach to you abroad. I think It Is a splendid, true thing only you do not practise It. Enjoy in life Its sentiments, but do not let them Interfere with the bualneaa of Ufa. Life la a commercial proposition all the way through. If a man wanta me to go out with him to are neavy inaeea. i never speculate, neuner do I invest in the stocks offered legitimately on the Parla Bourse. Every franc over my expenses I put in one of twenty French savings sav-ings banks. I have twenty accounts, because even tho safest bank may fail, and never, never would I put all my eggs in one pannier. pan-nier. A true French woman, I believe that no sum la too amall to save. The American woman seems to think that It la foolish to save until she has a large sum How illogical! il-logical! Let her copy me and begin "with the francs. It is hard to get. but It is harder 'o keep. Just as I believe it la ridiculous to give something for nothing, bo do I believe that It Is Impossible to get something for nothing. I know that there aro exceptions, that now and then a man or woman will make great fortunes by placing small stakes on the big odd. But for every one of these fortunates there are thousands who lose all they possess. pos-sess. The big stakes that go to the few are the all of the unfortunates. Where else could It come? If It wero not so wo would nil of ua be very rich. In life wo fhould get all we can for whatever what-ever It is we have worth paying for but when we expect to get twenty and hlrty tlmea over " Weaoh franc we Invest we fly ' I Three Suggested "Gaby Cards" aa Models for Everyone, if the Parisian Artiste's Theories Become Popular. thllde gave her all aha could afford over her doctors. If she had saved the money ahe had own actual living exponas to help her. And given she would not have died: she would suddenly the little friend became a great not even have been sick, and this Is but one singer. And Mathllde just at this time be- case In many. came 111. And the little friend forgot all I save all I get I have adapted from that about bar and marched on to suoceas, while old saying "A bird In the hand Is worth two Mathllde died for want of proper food and In the buah." I have written over my flnan Gaby Dealys in a Somewhat Economical Costume. |
