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Show PSYCHOLOGY OF ! MILITARY MEDALS i Paris, Nov. 9. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) The psychology psychol-ogy of the military decoration is showing show-ing up more obviously every day In Paris life; it is even getting into the police courts. The wearers of them have multiplied rapidly since the beginning be-ginning of the battles of Verdun and the Somme, and increasing numbers of them are seen on the lapels of men who have been mustered out and have reappeared in civilian attire, but their prestige Is undiminished. The cross of the legion of honor, the military medal and tho war cross are shown a deforrence that amounts almost to a pass key to every place and to everything; ev-erything; to illegitimate wearers of them It amounts to a sort of stock in trade. Tramway or subway passengers ; who, contrary to the traditional French politeness, were remarkably j selfiBh as to seats before tho war, now -give way to the soldier with a medal on his breast or with a ribbon in his j buttonholo, although they still' let women stand. The deference is not always acceptable. A wounded man Is likely to profit from the sacrifices, but the invalid man, home on leave, seems to take it as a sort of superfluous manifestation on the part of the civilian, civil-ian, and resents the supposition that there may besome physical reason for it One of them accepted a seat offered by a civilian in the subway the other day, but Instead of occupying it himself, furnished a double object lesson les-son by offering it in his turn to a woman. The sympathy that goes spontaneously spontane-ously to maimed soldiers has become the capital of men who lost legs or arms in accidents or brawls not even remotely connected with war. For a few francs they can buy any one or all three of the decoration ribbons at any one of the dozen shops that are now doing a thriving trade with the mutilated muti-lated soldiers who have been mustered out. Most of them use the ribbons as a cover for simple bogging, others for swindling, some to get work and not a few in mere vain and fraudulent show. |