THE PENALTY OF SHYNESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18551, 8 November 1923, Page 9

THE PENALTY OF SHYNESS.

GIRL'S ORDEAL IN PARIS. A girl who had wandered about the streets of Paris without food or shelter for six da: J and nights because she was too shy to ask her way has been restored to her friends by the Pansi police. The girl, Anna Satteler, as an Alsatian Her Employer met her on her arrival at the station, and took her to the lodgings which had been prepared for her telling her that the .should wait at her door at eight o'clock next morning for a. waiter, who would be sent from the restaurant to show her the way. Her story is that on the morning when she was to be taken to begin work in the Rue de Louvois she had mistaken the time, and waited for her guide at ,™ o'clock instead of eight When he did not come, she thought she had been forgotten, and so set out to find the Rue do Louvois for herself. She left her purse locked up, and set out without a penny in her pocket. Day after day she wandered about the city looking in Vain for the. Rue de Louvois. and, as she knew no French, too timid to try to ask her way. She slept in doorways or on benches in public squares, and her only food was a few crusts which she picked up in the streets and from dustbins. When at last she was found by a kindly policeman, her clothes were in rags and her shoes worn to tattered remnants. Yet a word to any policeman would have spared her tho whole ordeal. . . ■ /,, ;»