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Show BASHFULNESS OF A BOY BRINGS A GREAT SORROW New York. Aug. 29. If the other boys in an east side, public school had not laughed at little Simon Schenker and made fun of his excessive bashful-ners. bashful-ners. he and his mqther and sister and brother would not now bo awaiting await-ing deportation at Ellis Island. The little family came from Russia ten months ago and settled in the Russian colony on the east side here. ! and the mother made a living as a nurse. Simon was sent to the nearest near-est school, In accordance with the New York state compulsory education lnws. His teachers found hlni an unusually un-usually bashful boy so bashful that j in the presence of strangers be hd , difficulty In' making himself under-' stood His baiting, almost unlntelligt- j ble speech made him the laughing ! stock of the other boys, and after he J had stood the ridicmlc as long as his childish sensitiveness would allow, he rebelled and refused to go back to I school In the course of i.re Simon I was brought to the children's court as I a truant When It was found that the ' family had been In this country less j than a year, the Immigration authorities authori-ties were notified, and. upon an examination, exam-ination, they decided that Simon, together to-gether with his mother and sister and brother, wero llabh? to become public charges and mvst go-back to Russia. Relatives have appealed the case to the authorities in Washington. |