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Show HALT IS CALLED. ; ! That there can be too much of a good thing is shown hv the fact that the : ?oUiie'.s at the front in France are pro- ; renting against their ''adoption'-' as individuals in-dividuals by young women in the Cnitcd States who have the letter-writing ; habit. The idea was not so bad and ! we presume that in a great majority of cases the American lasses were bubbling bub-bling over with the desire to cheer some orave lads whom they feared would he .'ouesome so far away from home. But the plan has not worked so suoeessfullv a it might have done under ordinary .ireuniftances. Iu the first place the .nails are beginning to be choked with , the more or loss tender messages from '. This side or" the ocean, entailing delav in ihe transmission of more important matter. mat-ter. Next in order come the cecsor--hip regulation which forbid the men ! to correspond with strangers, and which j ! , ' ". "V " i a 'e i ,f. : p r ri'': : y cnior.'-ed. 1 ijia'ly. the j , .o!..i ar.- t..o V..i--y :r;-.i:iii.g tor 'he j -tr-'Milo':" ti'iie- ancrid 01' tiic::i to tal.c any great aninunt of i.-ircre-t in yonnr women v.ith whom th.'v are not and f-rvhhU'.y . .-r will he acquainted, s... S the di-tre,s signal h:.s been sent up and 1 I itn.- ten ler hearted maidens have been; (asked to turn their war a.ti-.iry in -ome oth- r dire.-tion. whi.-h niav be le-s roinauti.- 'out of more r.ra.'tieal use. 1 I |