SOFT-HEARTED GOLFERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 15 October 1931, Page 9

SOFT-HEARTED GOLFERS

The president of an exclusive golf club in Kansas City (Missouri, U.S.A.) recently called a special meeting of the board on a busy day (says the “Christian Science Monitor”). When these men, leaders in professional, civic, and industrial life, had assembled the president told them that on a certain bridge over a deep ravine on the links a pair of robins had built a nest and that one egg was already in it. Contending that continuous crossing of the bridge by players might lead to the breaking up of the little home he asked the board to pass a resolution forbidding anyone to pass over the bridge for a stated period of time.

After some discussion the resolution was passed, the ends of the bridge wore barricaded, and a sign posted, “Help the robins to raise their family. Please do not cross the bridge.” Without a complaint the 400 members of the club clambered down and up the banks t the ravine until the four eggs in the nest on the bridge were hatched and four fledgling robins were safely started on their diet of worms.

The best part of the story is that these wealthy people, more accustomed to convenience than to inconvenience, rather enjoyed “roughing it” across the ravine, and each look an interest ii tho robin family as if it were his per sonal responsibility to help them main tain the homo in safety.