After New Travel Record
MRS. DOUGLAS ARCHER, Berkeley poetess and writer, 1060 Cragmont avenue, accompanied by her son, DOUGLAS JR., plan to set a new "economy record" on a tour through Europe which she start tomorrow. She has disclosed to her friends that she plans to break all "shoestring" tour achievements - TRIBUNE photo.

Berkeley Poetess to Go on 'Shoestring’ Trip Abroad

BERKELEY, April 15, - A Berkeley poetess will start adventuring tomorrow as a "shoestring" traveler to see how far she can go on little money!
And as she pens impressions in verse and prose, Mrs. Douglas Archer, well known clubwoman and wife of a former Scottish officer, will really be conducting a bit of research to determine just how cheaply an educated person with a cultural background can go places and see things.
Mrs. Archer's 10-year-old son, Douglas, namesake of his father, a hero of Ypres, will be her companion in her vagabond travels. To begin with the Archers will scorn train, steamer or airplane in their journey to New York. They've elected to go by motor bus. First, because there's adventure In the less conventional way of making a transcontinental jaunt. And, secondly and principally, says Mrs. Archer, because it's cheaper.
TOURIST THIRD CLASS
From New York, instead of the de luxe passage enjoyed by the Archers when they came to California, from Scotland four years ago, Mrs. Archer and her son will travel tourist third class to Glasgow. The Berkeley poetess, disproving the statement that verse writers aren't practical, has items of food and shelter figured to the minimum of expense.
There'll be no tips for carrying baggage or for the performance of other small tasks on this “shoe-string" trip abroad. For each of the Archers will have but one suitcase and they'll do their own "toting."
Mrs. Archer's suitcase will carry a gown for every occasion not to mention the necessary "other things." There's an evening gown, dinner dress and an afternoon costume - making four changes of attire with her traveling tweeds. As for Douglas Jr., he'll wear short trousers, sweaters and blouses and a top coat for chilly evenings but no hat or cap.
Thus far Mrs. Archer has her traveling expenses, as far as actual transportation goes, figured down to an amazingly low sum. For a little more than $400 she has paid the way of her son and herself across continent to New York, from New York to Glasgow and thence back again to New York.
"It can be done," she laughs as she figures for her unusual trip. “Not with all the comforts with which I once journeyed to this country. But I'll wager there’ll be a lot more adventure and that’s what I'm after this time, coupled with the fact that there's really not nearly as much money in the world as there used to be, that is as far as the Archer family is concerned!
AN EXPERIMENT
“Besides in our discussions we have talked of how much money an educated person should have in order to travel. There were wide varieties of opinion and, as it was necessary that I go to my old home in Glasgow on business, I decided to undertake this experiment. I have learned to love America in the four years I have been here and I want to know more of its people. That's another reason why I am adventuring. For I shall return to make Berkeley my permanent home. I couldn't be happy any other place now and my husband will await me here.”
Mrs. Archer’s poetry has won her recognition and upon her return she will probably bring out a volume of verse. From her home, 1060 Cragmont avenue, she will take with her an unusual message for children across the sea - a testimonial of good will and friendship from pupils at the Hillside school, where Douglas has been a pupil, to the Hill Head school in Glasgow, which Mrs. Archer attended as a small girl.
Before returning to Berkeley, Mrs. Archer and her son plan to go touring in Europe to continue their research in cheap traveling and accumulating adventures. They plan to remain away about a year. Mrs. Archer's husband, Captain Douglas Archer, was attached to the Royal field artillery during the war and was wounded at Ypres, being discharged from the service for disability. He is associated with an industrial concern in the bay region.