Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-03-28
An OASIS.


This Is not, We suppose, q particularly
tender and kindly age. Indeed, g faithful
reader of the news of the day could easily
get the idea that the age is . particularly
hard and cruel one. The insane greed for
gold 's everywhere apparent, and 1t is
everywhere hostile to and destructive of
considerste regard for the feelings and the
fortunes of ones fellow beings. 1t in
wolves those sffatcted With 1t In mad race,
run to the cry, 1.-THE devil take the hind
most" It also appears to be q cruelty
pleasure loving age. People are 30 busy in
trying to have a good time that they can't
stop to sympathizs with thoss who are
not having a good time. Social life seems
to be hard and cruel. The idea of those
most oonspicuously engaged in it doesn's
seem to be of helpful nature. Society,
with . large s, seems to embody an attempt
to cut loose from the human race rather
than to help and elevate It. II looks upon
long-dead ancestors as moro important than
living, needy contemporaries. 1t seeks to
put out of sight the sad realities of life by
means of fantastic and cold blooded fo-
tions. As, for instance, In our own neigh
borhood 1t creates Colonial DANES In order
to obscure some cad realities. And as
with social life so with family life.
Family life doesn't appear to be
what it ought to bs. People get married
without the deep and tender feeling that
ought to inspire and accompany such q
performance. Some marry for money OF
position. Others marry to see how they
like 1t. Such say to themselves in the mar.
riage ceremony "till divorce do us part II
We are not suited" They have no notion
of being loyal and loving till death unless
they happen to be. SO we read OF
homes which are the hsbitseions of cruelty
of husbands and wives who are 'intolera
bly, cruel" We read of children cruelty
and tboughtlessly left witho ut the parental
care and protection they need. 90 frequent
and depressing are sach stories that We
wonder If men and women have forgotten
how to be kind to each other or to children.
But arid and cruel ss n,oslern business
life, social life and family life generally
seem to be, there are incidenh. which shine
like good deeds In naughty world, and
which give even the most pessimistic
moments of hope. One of them hss Just
cropped out in Brooklyn, New York, and
it gives us the fveliest pleasure to record
it, for ue are of those who believe tina,
deep down In human nature lie the seeds
of llthat is good and true and tender, and
that those germs have In them the power
to ultimately transform the desert of life
into Land of Beulsh-. So we watch fol
and welcome and rejoice In even tn.
eprouting of one of q 10 seeds. But ther,
has been moro Il .an g eprouting ir
Brooklyn. It was u is way: Mr.. and Mrs
Garner Of that h ,wn have for som,
time bssn living II fs full of tenderness
They have not been busy In sordidly ant
cruelty plundering their fellow beings
They have noa been fantastically and cold
bloodedly making OFF themselves . fsthe
and . mother Of the Revelation. The,
have had . small rat terrier, and he hs
had their hsarts- Ele has them still, al
though he il In the .oold, oold ground. H
would not haps bea 4 there IL tenderness
and kindness could ave sayed him. WheI
he was taken SICK tnt other day two doc
tors were called in to help him. But the.
could not terrierfy death and their patien
had to 60. He aidn't have to go unusp
and unhonorsd-- He sleeps his las