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Show AMERICAN SOLDIERS WEARING BRACELETS Not Worn as Ornaments, However, hut Only as Identification Tags; Proving Popular. By BEET FORD, Universal Service Staff Correspondent. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN' FRANCE. Aug. 10. What do you think, girls? American soldiers are wearing bracelets in France. Your brothers, cousins, husbands and sweethearts are sporting them on their risht wrists. They reserve left wrists for watches. But the "bracelets' are not worn as ornament 3. Banish the thought. Our men In ohve drab are too manly and too practical for that. It is sirapy a new method of wearing identification tags. Pises is-sued by the army are made of aluminum and are about the size of a half dollar. They are worn on a cord around the neck. When soldiers die in action or in a hospital these tags are nailed to the sir, Ail woo l:n crosses in the America n. remeteries that are grow-in grow-in a: on the hillsides. To insure against the possibility of discs be in ? lost from crosses, the name, address and organization of the deceased are piace-i in bottles buried With Ihe remains. re-mains. orryoiv had a leweler make an iden-tit'.caron iden-tit'.caron we for-wr.st wear attached by a chain. The idea, quickly became a fad". Members of aV, the allied forces are sport-'.r.z sport-'.r.z ' ' b r a c e 1 e t s " now. They ranee from the cheaper ones of steel to smart ores in silver. beautifully en craved. The sh'elris vary in size and shar-e. 0-'f:rers and buck prr. a ' c-s and ever; the Algerians ar.d Hindu Chinese troops-have troops-have acquired tne Vra relet habit. |