A WORLD TRIP.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 408, 15 April 1937, Page 3

A WORLD TRIP.

£4O IN HER POCKET. “I Just Made Up My Mind.” Special.—By Air Mail. London, March 27. From New York to New Zealand and 'Australia, via Europe, on a capital of £4O is the ambitious trip planned by 24_year_old Miss Dorothy Whittenberger, an American University girl. She has got as far as London and means to slay here until after the Coronation. “I just made up my mind to go round the world,” said this determined young woman, “and my family saw it wasn’t any good trying to stop me. Everyone in the States was interested; they even broadcast about me on the radio. So now' I feel I daren’t go back, whatever happens! So far Mist- Whittenberger has been lucky. She started out on November IS in a Norwegian freighter, bound for Trinidad. Here she covered 1 her living expenses by writing. Then a Dutch ship offered her a 17-days’ cruise to the Guianas as the only passenger. “I had a gnand time,” she said. “Everywhere we stopped people made a terrible fuss of me. They even bought me films for my camera and picture postcards to send away.” At St. Laurent she was given an unusual souvenir—four small gold nuggets, which she means to keep whatever happens. Miss Whittenberger saw Devil’s Island, the convict settlement at Cayenne, and spent two days in the Demerara jungle among the aboriginal Indians, a primitive and nearly extinct race. The President’s Help. In Trinidad- Miss Whittenberger met President Roosevelt. “I told him that if I wat stuck anywhere I’d wire him for help,” she said. “He liked that.” So she isn’t worrying. The trip from Trinidad to England made a hole in the £40,. but she says- she’ll get round somehow, taking n.ny job that, comes along. “Even washing dishes. Though,” she added with a smile, “washing dishes happens to be the one thing I hate. .So I hope it doesn't come to that.” Miss Whittenberger has collected a considerable fan mail. Some of the letters are just good wishes. One of them enclosed a dollar, with a request for a picture postcard from every interesting place . she visits. This will probably cost more than a dollar, for she wants to go on to Faris and “do” Europe and' then take in Russia, India, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, not to mention South America and South Africa on the 'v|ay home. ‘‘London is just the opposite to New York, she said. "The. houses are short, the policemen are handsome, the subways are comfortable, you cant find- your way around without getting lost and everything i s old and historic.”