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Show A. E. F. HUSBANDS. Evidence continues to accumulate that a considerable number of America's sturdy fighting men will not return home that is, they will not return home at once; and eventually when they do come back, if ever they do, they will bring with them wives and families. There is no question that a good num-be num-be of our battling soldiers have fallen under the spell of the chic Marie and her sisters. Ontonino Barthelemey, Franch consul stationed at Chicago, and having consular con-sular jurisdiction in sixteen states, reports re-ports an ever-increasing flow of inquiries in-quiries concerning the character, habits and reputations of American soldiers now abroad. Those seeking this information infor-mation are invariably the parents or elder relatives of French young women. The inference is that, since the armistice arm-istice was signed, our boys have taken to capturing hearts instead of Germans. "I am very happy to say that the answers I am making to the letters of inquiry," says the consul, "are practically practi-cally all a declaration that the young men inquired about would make fine husbands." With millions of the flower of 1 France's youth dead iu the war, there necessarily must exist a dearth of suitable suit-able young men in that country. No doubt there are hundreds and even thousands of homesteads, farms, vineyards, vine-yards, requiring the care and attention of men. Since France has so fe.v of her own sons left, what could be more : simple and satisfactory than an Ameri-: can occupation of those 'homesteads, : farms and vineyards? And when a beautiful young girl is the mistress of the property, the lure is likely to prove . irresistible for many a young fellow j whose home tics in this country are of only an indifferent sort. |