The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-11-17
LYNDEN GIRL SPINS YARN FOR
THOSE NEW YORK REPORTERS

Illustrated with views showing nel
sleeping outdoors, catching trout in
mountain stream, tramping up rail
road track wearing trousers and full.
ly armed, an article telling of the ex-
ploits of Miss Teresa Tromp, former
ly of Lynden, is going the rounds OF
the Eastern newspapers.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer on
Sunday copied it from a New York
paper, with the illustrations. The
story published about Miss Tromp is
as follows:
When. in April, 1917. Miss Teresa
Tromp, junior in the college of
liberal arts of the University of
Washington, hiked alone 116 miles
from Seattle to the Canadian boun-
Diary line in her quest of first-hand
information in human nature, the
adventure was regarded as somewhat
of a sensation i'll University circles,
in which she was a notable figure.
A few days ago she completed a
hike across the continent, to pursue
her study of philosophy in Columbia
University, New York. On this 5000
mile journey she also travelled alone.
striding along at the rate of thirty
miles a day in a khaki suit of her
own design, carrying a rifle and auto
matte revolver. making camp at night
sleeping in the open, and, as on var
ious jaunts which she took in the
Northwest in vacation times during
her course at the University of Wash
ington, enjoying every minute of it,,
alert to observe all sorts of fellow
men and women; for always her su-
which she evolved in the days of her
study at the University, and she has
now gone to the Eastern college for
further preparation to expound it.
Teresa Tromp was distinguished
even in her schoolgirl days in Lynden
Wash. Seen outside the schoOlrOOm
she was just a very active. exuberant
lover of the great outdoors. But in
her studies her avid mind set her
apart from others, and her daring
and original views on things in gen.
eral made her a continual surprise
to teachers and schoolmates. In
high school and normal school later
in Bellingham she won distinction
for her scholarship, and when she en-
tered the State University her assO-
ciates in school years were not sur
prised when she chose philosophy for
her special subject and set about
evolving a philosophy of her own.
The outstanding quality of Theresa
might it is said, properly
write it-.Vcti Tromi" as--sae IS a
direct descendant of that famous Ad-
miral Won Tromp of the Dutch navy
is individuality. In school days when
she took notion to go somewhere
out in the wilds usually-she walked
and went alone; and she has been
Going it alone" ever since. The pic
lures taken at the completion of her
3,000-mile walk, show she "got away
with it, as easily as she did the var
ious hikes and stunts she undertook
during her spectacular years in this
part of the country.
1t could never be said of Teresa
that she tramped about merely to
gain notoriety. She always had an
object in view, test of her theory
of philosophy. To get new angles on
the human being she served a couple
of weeks in the Washington State
Hospital for the Insane at Medicine
Lake; put in a month or more herd
ing sheep on a lonely range in Yak
ina County; and in other ways got
into contact with conditions of life
and experiences, pondering deeply
those phases which might be touched
and affected by her philosophical
scheme.
What will Teresa Tromp do when
she has secured her degree of doctor
of philosophy from Columbia Univer-
sity? Well, the indications are that
she will proceed to doctor philosophy
that is. to formulate definately her
own theory and then, with character
istic vigor and directness, go about
the application of it toward the cure
of "the deep disease of life as she
sees it. For Teresa takes life SER
iously.