Reason for Anonymous Giving.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 160, 28 August 1886, Page 5

Reason for Anonymous Giving.

An old Harrovian, full of gratitude towards the late schoolmaster, Dr. Butler, has presented £10,000 to the school to purchase the football field as a memorial of him. That is eplendid liberality, and the newspapers aek why the donor should conceal his name ; buttheydonot quite know England. The moment his name is published the donor will be recognised as a new victim, very rich, and with capacities for liberality in him. For years he will be tormented by the begging-letter writers,' by 'the secretaries -of - charitable -societies, and by the manufacturers of threats, until his life has become a> burden to him. He wiU be hunted even to his country retreat, will be waylaid on the steps of his London house, will be exposed to every variety of pertinacious insult. He , will be diecuseed' in the society newspapers for nqt spending more, he will be abused in, Socialistjj'ournais fo^ possessing co much, and if he buys a new house he wi}fbe accused of laying field to field and house td.houee unti,l there is no room for the p00r. ,, ~No man who ever heard a millionare relate his experiences of t public giving , would ever subscribe six pence again except anonymously, or except in countries where the " benefactor is still considered an object of respect, j, 1 , . -t- . ,

The rigid separation of the' 'sexes after death is a highly moral ' American notion. In a Moravian graveyard in? Greensboro*, N. 0., the married women are burled ' iii one squa'rey the married men in another, in still ' another equpre ' the maiden ; ladies, while, 1 together. rest the unmarried* men. Then in' two squares are found dn one side the- boys and on the otKer the girlai^ ; vi . ,*>.>•.<, i , There' are now 200,006{0p0 German carp tin' the* United? States; tbe¥de«cehdarits' of fi*b?'-fadttffhfeV»to&thV United' ; States lest than A dosteriKyeWa'go. '-'■;'<>"'>>s