Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER views of our garden city correspondent pon dent A very decided improvement perceptible in trade and traffic in commercial bentres centres cen tres the interests alt over the country aro in full operation giving employment to thousands of skilled workmen who for the past two or three years were forced to live upon the of their more fortunate neighbors the investment of capital in do and internal improvements the building of machinery and investing inand improving real estate in our cities and towns and the wonderful opening up of gold and silver mines all tend to inspire confidence idour growing prosperity this revival of gooda times is being felt everywhere and in all conditions of life even the ladies have caught hie inspiration and have enlarged their crinoline so as to give ampleness amp feness in walking and enlarging their liberty altogether most welcome adding very materially to their graceful appearance pe arance upon the streets the ridiculous clinging skirts drawn so tightly across the hips a to show any bodily deformity they may have alio leaders of fashion forced upon them two years ago has finally culminated and it is to bo hoped never again to revive the substitution of the panier skirt has not only relief but greatly adds to their personal charms and beauty upon the street in the parlor and tho dressing room this new innovation upon fashion is but the revival of the hoop skirts worn a few years ago only a decided ira being so large or cumbersome ber some their universal introduction in oil our large cities and towns ha already and will doubtless be worn by every lady in all alie mailer villages and ham acte the rich dresses to bo seen daily upon our streets is an evidence of better times the loaders of fashion have dictated new and novelties in dress that add wonderfully to comans womans grace and beauty idlers tramps and loungers around are rapidly disappearing sidewalks aro fillod by men hurrying to and fro to their and the sound of the saw and hammer is bieard upon side erecting house and private residences the looms and spindles the forge and anvil the art arball nio tion cheso are evidences of better times in and in all our largo cities the product of their labor is finding a market in the rural districts and country towns and villages alie farmers ere planting a largo to supply the increasing de mandt or these products the unscrupulous political demagogue and agitators no exercise tho in fluency they once exerted in keeping the public mind in a constant tur and strife flu restoration of business in tho departments of industrial pursuits and trade and traffic is now the watchword thee are some oatlie signs of a revival of confidence and a healey move in ro sorin ty deiy years agat crushed by the iron heel of recklessness in fast living political discoveries and inflation of values produced by tho causes incident to tho late rebellion of specie payments has given our an unlimited credit at and abroad re our in cir clos and put in motion the whole machinery that will in a few jears make tho richest most powerful and people aliat have ever lived upon earth at any period the history J C |