| Show GENERAL improvements residences take on themselves an air of prosperity painting Paper hangin fencing remodeling and rehabilitating Is now the order of the day in spring the young mans fancy lightly turns to thoughts ai love and at the same time the thoughts of tha young mans mother and father turn to house cleaning repairing remodeling painting paper hanging new fencing and general improvements of the home nest this may be because there is a good chance often that in case the young mans fancy may be hard to change there may be an addition to the family in the shape of ayoung miss of eighteen to twenty summers and that there will have to be a provision tor the comfort ot the two young birds or it may be because there is a great satisfaction in having everything about the place look as if it were just from the bandbox band box provably ably the latter Is more generally the case but there alsback ls back of this an influence which Is decidedly potent and which must be admitted the condition of the finances prosperity is the great agent for the improvement era whenever prosperity comes there will come with it an inclination to place the homes and business bouses in a condition where their general appearance reflects the condition which obtains with the people within that is the case with ogden today the people are all prosperous and they are beginning to put out signs to that effect and they are more numerous this year than they have been for many past in all sections of ithe city there is 9 continuous work going on in the line of improvements and the residences are taking on an appearance appe aranco of newness which is most refreshing an tha bench and in the valley everywhere the same hind of work is being done and in addition thereto there are a number of new residences being built residences for which tenants have already been contracted residences aire being put up because there is absolutely none tor rent otherwise which are not already occupied the demand for houses has been so steady and so great that the agents nave their bands full telling the people that they have little or nothing for them everything points to a year of unexcelled prosperity for the city and there is nothing which so pointedly emphasizes such a condition as ithe scarcity 0 houses and a demand for them for rent and a feeling that now is the time I 1 to put everything in ship shape and improve the general appearance of the city peace and prosperity still live and the government at washington still lives |
