SHOWER OF GOLD

Evening Star, Issue 21711, 4 May 1934, Page 6

SHOWER OF GOLD

An aged woman’s gift to a hospital, as a thank-offering for kindness received there when she was a child, was revealed in London recently. The woman, who was poorly clad, entered the secretary’s office at the Royal Waterloo Hospital. After telling of the treatment she had received there as a child, she pulled down her stocking, and forty golden sovereigns fell to the floor. Some weeks previously a woman entered the ball of the same institution and thrust an envelope into the porter’s hand. “For the secretary,” she said, and departed. The envelope contained three £lO notes. Lately she called again, and again gave the porter an envelope. This time it contained five £lO notes. Mr J. H. Teasdale, secretary of the hospital, has forbidden any attempt to discover the person’s identity. “We have other benefactors who like to do good by stealth,” he explained, “ and we always respect their wishes. Such gifts from the blue—given in gratitude for favours' received—arc very welcome in these hard times.” One unknown visitor, known to the staff merely as “the foreign gentleman, “ calls fairly regularly with a basket of flowers. Occasionally a £5 or £lO note is concealed among the .blooms,”