Mr. F. N. Wagner is one who has had ample opportunity im his work of studying the eccentricities of man and womankind. And he should know as much about the "difficult" traveller as Miss Boothe knows of a certain group of women in New York society. Mr. Wagner is chief courier of Cook's and has worked for many years in the exclusive "Prince's Department" of his company. Maharajas are his speciality.
Did anyone complain about the woman who travels with too much luggage? The chief courier from Cook's can cap that one. He tells of the gentleman who went on holiday with 468 pieces of luggage weighing 17 tons, and another who insisted on taking a portable kitchen and his own staff of chefs on the journey.
An Englishman once hired Mr. "Wagner for a trip "to the world's coldest spot," which proved to be Yakutsk in Siberia. Then, there was the American millionaire who engaged the courier to take him on a tour of every Napoleonic landmark in Europe. Their pilgrimage from Ajaccio to Elba took them six months.
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