A PENNY A GLASS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 6 December 1930, Page 19

A PENNY A GLASS

Enterprising Lassies

Itt the little Fifeshire village of Lundin Links, not many • miles from St. Andrew's, are four little girls who are destined to be women business magnates of the future, for, at the age of sis and seven, they are already, making comfortable incomes selling water at a penny a- glass to Scotsmen, states the "Sunday Chronicle." These little girls are called Agnes, Helen, Jean, and Margaret, and every golfer ia Lundin Links and the neighbouring town of Leven knows them. At the beginning of. this summer the four little girls applied at the golf course for a job as caddies. But even the humblest bag of clubs was too much for them. Despondent, the little girls were walking home across the links when they saw some golfers stretched full-length in the turf with their mouths to the cooling stream. Which of the four little girls actually had the idea of securing tumblers from the nearest farmhouse and becoming water caterers is not quite clear. They all claim the credit. Anyway, soon four rather nervous little girls were filling their, glasses with water at the spring and running with them to '■ the ■ four plus-fourrdad . men coming up from the Lundin Links ninth green. . . a drink, sir," they clamoured. "A penny a glass." The golfers stopped; They felt thirsty. The clubhouse was far off "What is it?" they asked suspiciously. "Water," chorused the girls. There was a moment of silence and then —the golfers began to laugh. Water at a penny glass when with least exertion they could have it free! But the audacity of the girls carried them away. They drank their glasses of water—and paid for them. That day the foundations of a thriving business, were laid. Today, Agnes, Helen, Jean, and-Margaret are daily at their, stance on the course and the penny-a'rgiaEs vrater las become as much a recognised custom as taking the waters at a spa.