Show AMERICANS FiNISH 20 IN KISSING ENGAGEMENT Football and Soldiers Soldiers' Orr Or Or- Ornate I r nate Coats Combine to to toS Puzzle French Allies S By W. W H. H Ross With the American Boy 1 Fore Force In France AMERICAN ARMY 1 IN t Tn THE TIlE CB c. Oct 21 B By The 1 bae- bae M b tile tha lit OVe over nOW and has bRa Every company on has baa begun sub team am Th Th fellows have I lUnd fUnd to buy padding with which to tolie to I lie football suit suit- which are tin un- unI I J hire here and although they Tot pt gOt bead head guard guarde or no nOM noe guards gurda 5 creditable game At a ap at P PL up up pretty there were about a a. hunS hun hun- p S tnt Dt t rench COP soldiers as nil Invited gu KU at t- t 1 thought it was waN some come new hew Kind of or ora S warfare and when trench a t fr fer r i SW Mow sHow ug waa we carried eit off ort tho tho field l the theS had bad to be adjourned for tor a few tew S atea IA tee to let it their vociferous comment J heers subside before the quarter quarter- quarter quarter-I signals could be heard 1 S practice the casual French onlooker r concludes conclude that this Is Ia rome pome n t S SS American wrinkle of attack and nd r It was WN apparent they couldn't S HIt value they refrained retrained from But they were enthusiastic at the tho 3 t In the attacks even If It the they t und understand why one ond dived for J adversary's knee instead of running throUgh i through h with a a. bayonet Football lUU attea l adr put several everal In the hoe hospital t ItS J regarded as ac better than bayonet 1 in preparation for lor trench fight fight- I was af out in explored territory Sunday 7 Americans AmerIcana are getting common some It me places la s but there are are still thou thou- I da as of little utile hamlets in which none has i been seen 4 Another fellow and myself took a car ar far as we could go and then walked Ib tAut m About out five miles mile Ve We stopped a a. woman womanS S driving a n. wagon on tho the road to tork k her ier how far tar it was to a a. refreshment to rk place lice She told us a kilometer and then 5 Whipped up and dashed off ott ahead J we got Kot to the village the mayor maor mayorS S out to meet Us and kl kiss U us ua on both bothe botha e a and arid tho the innkeeper turned the over to us Ho lie kissed our hand w 1 kissed his in return Ho lie kissed ours S i again In Vo Wo 0 didn't come back Evidently 4 It he wanted ant 1 the last kiss The mayor 1 1 found a man who had been beer to New York 1 1 one olIce and the tho fellow finally conveyed a welcome Wo We royal were invited back to toi i have ve dinner with the mayor next Sunday i One Influence e toward o ou r elaborate re rec reception ret re- re t c Cf was Vall our new overcoats which i had Just been issued They w were re so re lve that the tench I-tench cant can't realize that tIO so fine tine a a. garment can be worn by 1 any but a a. high officer Hence the I 1 have ave beef ber saluting every time they see I f one J Jot an American private but what I i has bas d had his share of flutes And they look shocked as the tho deuce if iC you dont don't answer them |