The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-27
The Firing Line By D. N. T.

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 By D. N. T.
 "The battle for bigger handbags abates. Can it be that we are going to rest content with less to carry?" Barbara E. Scott Fisher in the Christian Science Monitor.
 PLUS CA CHANGE Milady's trend is toward the bag That runs a little less to size, A little less of bump and sag That show a porter's enterprise, The massive bag is on its way To that far reach of smothered fad That shelters things another day, Another predilection had. Then will milady rest content, Since this is so, to carry less? PerhapS-but see fit to vent The tired initiates bitter guess. That small receptacles will hold The tonnage custom guarantees Of everything, from gilt to gold, That constitutes her mysteries; A guess, moreover, dressed in gloom That sees milady's horrid time In paving things to disentomb The lone, inevitable dime.
 
 On October 15, the Massachusetts minimum pay for white collar work CTS will move up to sixty cents an hour. That's the highest in the Nation-and you'll have to get two days out of the white collar, even so.
 A Brooklyn pastor has asked Dod- ger fans to pray for the success ot the Buns in the hot pennant race this week. They'd better wait un- til the team is in the Series before asking divine intervention; they'll need it to save the city from be- ing torn down then.
 A Chicago wigmaker reveals that at least a half million women in this country are baldheaded and that more are getting that way all the time It's hard thing to be- lieve; with an expanse of eplder- mis like that, no woman could re- sist the temptation to make 1t up in public.
 Anthony Eden urges a new ap- proach" to Russia by the United States and Great Britain, because present relationships contain an imminent threat of war" The fact remains, however, that it's practically impossible to get team work from the guy who won't play unless he can pitch.
 Mrs. Truman is back at the White House after spending the summer at the family home in Indepen- dence, Missouri. She must have heard the rumors that Harry had started housekeeping.
 The Long Island Railroad has provided a new station called United Nations" for the convent ence of the LIN Security Council. There'll probably be a lot of ar guments among the delegats over whose language the train announ- cer is yelling it in.
 A few more weeks and the radio will be giving out with some ot those mournful dirges.
 The Big Four are bending every effort to end the peace barley at Paris by October IS. So anxious are they to wind up the sessions that there is said to be serious movement afoot 10 start talking peace.
 | MT. Truman certainly is turning into an old salt. He has even been at sea ever since he returned from the Bermuda trip.
 Contractor Gives Widow Build | ing Lot"-headline Must have been the same contractor who poured oil on the burning building and gave the drowning man a drink.
 Thousands of New York truck drivers have returned to their jobs after IT days of strike-born idle ness. So the Gotham air is clear again-and blue again.
 A makeup expert declares that there is nothing wrong with the ob- long type of face. We still think it's nice to have a round.