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Discussing Her Tactless Ex- n yQ
ing French Beauties to Those Qut
Picked for Him by Three - jj
Kings and Pointing Out LJjSllS
How Absurd It Is to Think J
One Woman Any Different from Another
G
ABY DESLYS, the brilliant French beauty, for
whom
Mnuel of Portugal loll hit throne, has heretofore
scrupulously quiet about the little ex-King. Mnuel
cent tactless conduct in alienating the Ciar by nubbing the beau
tiea of hit famous Russian ballet and provoking the King of Eng
land, the King of Creece and the Kaiier by refining to marry
WHY, thoy ask me, Is my former King Mnnuol so
tactless: After losing a throno for a woman,
why now has ho destroyed his chanceB of get
ting back that throno by pursuing certain beauties of
Paris Instoad of quietly marrying ono of the titled
ladles as two kings and nn emperor desired him? And
why did ho allenato the friendship of tho Czar by snub
bing the darlings of RusBla tho royal ballot and enst
lng his affeotlon at the feet of still anothor French
boauty?
Ahl I will tell you. You men will not billovo mo
my sisters will bo so angry tor tho tolling, but I will
tell. 1 will break my sllenco Just a little about my
former Manuol. Uften I have been offered much money
to wrlto ot him, but always I havo said Non, I must
wait for twelvo yoars, or perhaps ton, until I can got
what you Americans call tho proper perspective. But
now 1 will tell a llttlo Just because you will not bo
llovo, you mon. .
It Is this: Manuel Is tactlossv throws aside his chancos
of climbing back uponihls throno bocauso ho is a man.
Thnt is all thoro Is to It. Ho has not loarned tho lesson
I tried to teach him. Ho still thinks that ono woman Is
dltforent from all othorsl Pouf, poor Manuol 1 No
woman is dlfforont from another, Manuel. And no
man is dlfforont from anothor, my sisters. Tho first
Is tho losson that no man will loam or bellovo; tho
second, llko tho first, Is whal all women know. Do not
bo angry with mo, my 'sisters, for telling this no man
will bellovo me. You are still qulto safo.
ii right, 11)13,
the princesses each in turn picked out for him, thus destroying hi
chance of regaining hii throne, hai led Gaby to break her tilence.
Next week Gaby Deslys, who n the star of rhe Winter
Garden, in New York, will supplement this article with another
applying the new Goipcl of. Efficiency to "the profession of
womanhood,"' in which she will tell women how to make them
selves 100 per cent afficient.
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By GABY DESLYS
it is your iupung mat says: mo cotonoi s tauy ana
Julio lo Grado aro sisters undor thoir skin. Wise Kip
ling In words. But does ho practlco what ho writes?
I do not bollovo.
listen If Manuel Is to bo my theme I must recount
a bit of him. When ho lost his throno tho world said:
"Chorchez la fommo." Thoy pointed to' mo. Poor llttlo
king It was not I; it was ho himself who lost himself
his throno. And, being a man, it was not his fault It
w.as, indeed, what your Jacques Itoao would call a
"framo up." Somo dny I shall toll all of that. But tho
world thought It was I and my pearls "cherchoz la
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leninio'-- zip-p!
Tho throno
slides.
So much for
that. But Ene-
land would havo
helped him rogaln
his throne. Thero aro
unmarried princesses In
England whom tlm Klntr
desired Manuel to wed ono
of them at least. Ho was elvon
an apartmont In Kensington Pal
ace. And lo, he flies to German
by way of Paris.
Tho ICalsnr hna flvn iinltilnmiMm.
" uuitt.uiuauiig
nieoes and cousins that mni ho mrioH
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orr. Manuol has been drawing an allowanco
from the Oorman Governmont, and It would
do a most oxcollont thing for him to repay this
debt and approach his empty Portugal throno
by way of tho Kaiser's nleco or cousin. Tho
-louse of Hohonzollern awaits expectantly. And
Manuel flies to Greece by wny of Paris!
Tho King of Greece, although not so powerful
as tho others, .can do much. Ho, too, liaB ladles
of title on his hands. Ho offorB. And Manuol
Hies to St. fetors burg by way of Paris!
Xhe Czar shows him his ballet those so beau
tiful ladles who havo played so great a part In
tho history of Russia. And what does Manuel
do? Ho looks upon them with lack lustre eyes
and can only bo charmed out of his melancholy
by a dancer from Paris! And thus Is tho Czar
alienated, Russia Is alienated, they cartoon my 1
former Manuol even. And ho departs for Paris!
Voila! I touch upon those facts historical-?
only bocauso It is what Is happening In larger
or smaller way everywhere. I hold up Manuel
tho y pa. The type of what? Of man, of course.
Man who thinks bocauso one woman has black
eyes and anothor blu'o that tho women them
selves aro different, man who thinks that a mill
imeter difference In the size of an eyo makes
women of tcomuii.
I tell you, because you will not believe It, that
there Is no such thing as women thoro Is only
woman I
Man man 1b Just an explorer. The few ex
ploro lands the many exploro women. The
lands aro they not, after all, the same? The
same earth horo snow and Ice perhaps; there
palms and desert; hero mountains there plains,
But all tho samo earth. So It is ot woman. Man
is tho great romanticist, tho great sentimental
ist. Ho thinks things aro different,- and so he
continually seeks the new. He may think ha
llnds It but he doesn't Thero is nothing dif
ferent; thero Is nothtng new. But you will not
oven bellevo Solomon and you will not believe
me and so I am frank.
Manuol Is an explorer. Manuel Is a man.
Therefore all rrten are explorers. Manuel aeets
over tjomethlng (new. He says: "Hero I will And
brighter eye, f more sprightly wit; hero Is the
road to Heart's Desire." Ho finds not. So of
all men. I krjow the syllogism Is faulty in
theory. In practice It Is perfect.
All men crave change. They may deny It;
they may have to curb tho desire but there It
Is. And that Is why so many meu go about al
ways looking as though they had something to
hide. It Is woman's art to make them think that
they secure change- But they do not really se
cure It.
Listen I will, tell you a great secret that goes .
tar back to tho time when women began to learn
to make men think them different. Oh, so far
back millions of years! First, there was little
chance for any charm. Llfo was too hard and
cruel. A woman was then JUBt a woman, and
men were too simple to cherish illusions. He
who cherished Illusions fell by the club of an
enemy whllo lying dreaming.
Then came tho tlmo when women banded to
gether and formed what Is called the mother
rule. And-durljrig that time man was too glad to
bo picked by ono woman or other as her mate
to fall under any Illusions. I do not think that
even at that time women had the illusion that
men were different. One man was stronger
perhaps, ono mora comely, one more amusing
but basically woman knew all men to be the
same.
And then man rose and conquered woman.
Aud woman to regain her place created the
great illusion for .him. She made him believe
that thero was not' Just woman but women
She had to. She had become a serf, where
tret of ore she had ruled. She was in what you
"There is no such thing as women there is only
woman. When man first conquered woman she
created this great illusion for him that one wo
man is more desirable than another! and man, the
great sentimentalist, believes it Pouf!" Says Gaby
say competition supremo with her sisters.
Woman has ruled, does rule, will rule. And this
was how sho did It. She made man believe that
each woman was different that ono was more
desirable 'than tho other. La, la poor, romantic
man!
She blinded him and she encouraged him to
explore. It is this that has mado the world bo
wondorful a placo for us. Man's blindness brings
light to many women
Woman believes nothing that a man tells her
and' little that ho writes. Men, on the contrary,
bollovo nearly all a woman says and all that sho
writes. This Is the reason woman saves letters
of love that a man writes, and has persuaded
man that It is honorable to destroy those writ
ten him by woman. Sho prepares herself- for
tho tlmo she knows will come when man will
cravo change, more exploration, and will stamp
himself for what sho has always known him a
liar. If this were not so, moro men would bring
breach of promise suits.
If woman were truthful there would never
havo been a novel written nor a play put on tho
stage. All novels, all plays, all life and Iovo are
founded on tho deception of woman. And we
are so simply because It was necessary to hold
man and keep htm held. Tho really natural
woman Is never attractive' to man. Tho abso
lutely truthful woman would never get a hits
band never does. For every thousand men who
bolleve that other men aro deceived you will
And only a tenth of a man who believes he him
self is deceived! Is it not so? You know it.
And why Is It so? Because woman is the most
efficient of creatures. '
In this art of deception woman has spent un
told ages. Fashion started a million years ago,
when one woman wore her wolf skin looped over
a shoulder instead of tied around her waist. Why
did sho do it? To appear different. To stand
out from the others, and so to appear more de
Blrable. And this Is all ot fashion to help
woman to seem not woman but women.
Listen you have seen card conjurors. Yes.
They have a pack of cards and they riffle them
before you and thoy say, "Pick a card." You
pick a card i you think of your own will. And
then the conjuror, without seeing it, tells you tho
name ot the card. Is It not wonderful? you ex
claim. .No, It is not wonderful. He does that
which woman has done for centuries. That card
you took out he put out just a little bit more
than the others. He mado it seem different.
Unconsciously man's deslro for the different said
to him, "Tako that card." He takes It. He
thinks he has taken It of his own will. It has
been forced upon him by the conjuror. This Is
all thero Is to women. Ah, women aro the mas
ter conjurors.
And all this you will not believe. Will not be
lieve when I tell you that for untold centuries
woman has spent the greatest part of her llfo
upon this art of seeming different. She has pa
tiently bred tho deslro and the illusion In tho
bodies of untold generations of men children!
Sho has bred the art ot it Into the bodies ot
untold generations of girl children. She ar
ranges her hair in so many ways; sho decorates
her face; she studies, learns all for this. Why
Is a woman so angry when sho tinds another
woman wearing a dress juet like hers? Thero
is .nothing that makes her so angry! But no
man ever challenges another to a duel because
Eat Lime and Ward Off Flat Feet
iLAT-FOOT Is one of tho most common of.
diseases among those who aro compelled
to be on their feet a great deal. Police
men, letter-carriers, bookkeepers, who stand at
tnelr desks, barbers and others who perform
their dally duties without ever once getting a
chance to rest, suffer greatly from this ailment,
which involves a breaking down ot the arch of
the toot.
Flat-foot has been attributed to the hardness
of city pavements, to poorly made shoes and to
faulty habltB in walking; but recent research
seems to Indicate that the-blame has been mis
placed, and that the matter Is really one of diet.
At any rate, it seems that flat-toot may bo largely
prevented and may possibly be cured by the ad
dition ot llme-contalnlng foods to the usual diet.
Human bones are constructed largely of lime.
To build up the bones forming the arch of tho
foot a .certain amount of llme-contalnlng foods
Is necessary, and this amount should be In
creased as one grows older, because of the ln
ho finds htm wearing exactly the same kind ot
suit Tho woman, the primitive to tho
higher, resents looking the same as another, and
even if she does not know why she resents it,
sho is no less angry. But men, knowing that he
is man and not men knowing, too, although
not consciously, that woman knows all men are
just the same, wears the samo unltorni without
a question. How pathetic are his efforts now
and then tossnatch a leaf from woman and to
try to appear different. And how ashamed ho
looks when he succeeds-
Is It not plain to you? No, nor over will be.
Tho habit Is too strong women aro too strong.
So much for now. Next week I shall tell
you how woman came to make herself so much
more powerful than man, how she learned to
create the great Illusion I have described, and
how she can make herself and why she ought
to make herself 100 per cent efficient in her
profession ot womanhood. I will call It the
"New Gospel of Efficiency as Applied to Being
a Woman."
It will be interesting and frank and truth
ful Ah, yes, all of that I promise you.
creased, weight of the body with age.
As ono grows older and heavier the strain on
tho arch of the foot Is correspondingly increased,
and it is necessary, in order to meet this ad
ditional strain, that the bones forming the arch
of the foot should not only grow heavier but
should be knit more closely together.
Most ot the foods found on the modern Amer
lean table are devoid of the lime which the bony
system requires. Bread is made from brauless
flour, cereals are often prepared In such a way
that much ot their lime contents are lost, and
other articles of diet are similarly deprived of
their bone-Btrengthentng value. .
For this reason, If one would protect himself
against flat-foot, it is recommended that a glass
of lime water be taken at least once or twice a
week. Taken with milk, lime water is not at all
unpalatable, and, indeed, makes milk the more
digostlble for those who And it otherwise bard
to take.
Lime water may not cure flat-foot, but it is
believed to be instrumental in warding It off.
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