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Show SDLDIERS AT FROiMT TO ENJDYCHRISTMAS Packages Will Be Sent Free, Many Will Visit Their Families PAKIS Dec n 4 58 p m Anyone in France may send a Christmas parcel weghing up to two pounds to a so d er at the front without paying postage on the package A bi 1 conferring this p i eBe wh ch holds good from date until January 6 was unanimous y passed by parliament today Letters are always car led free The families of sold ers have not a ed for the passage of this law bu a e been over oad ng for some ime past e means of tra spoliation to the front w th Christmas packages They have sent od chickens, meat pies hams every var ety of cake sweetmeats and preserved fru t. and every imaginable thing besides in the way of wearing apparel that would keep out wet and co d Probably 100 000 men from the front w 11 spend Christmas with their fami es The mil ary adm n stration has been gen erous w th lea es and soldiers are now a lowed six da s at home not coun ng the time of go ng and coming Formerly the period was four days The Amer can aviators Lieutenant William K. Thaw of Pittsburg Sergeant Norman Prince of Boston and Sergeant Ell ott C Cowdin of New York, ha e been a lowed eight days in America exclus v of the time for the voyage They are on board the steamer Rot erdam Wh le Christmas in Paris will be less gay than usua the mothers, as Is lad I cated by the crowded shops are buying freely for the children The go ernment wi 1 not permit restaurants and cafes to remain open later than the usual cos ng hour of 10 30 and there is no more re serving at h gh prices of tables n noted restaurants for midnight suppers A so there wi 1 be none of the one flme street frivolities. The church services w 11 be unusually Impressive |