The Archive · 1940

Eccentric Travellers

Mr. F..N. Wagner is one who has: had ample opportunity in his work of studying the eccentricities of man und) womankind. And he shoud 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. Mahara-Jas are his speciality.

Did anyone complain about the woman who travels with too much luggage?' The chief courier from housekeeper at Windsor Castle, Mrs. Rawlings added a very heavy task to her long list of everyday duties. This was the covering up of every window Inthe Castle each nightfall. The ordinary housewife finds the window black-out job in the ordinary sized English house a tiresome one. But she offers her sympathy to Mrs. Rawings, who eventually saw to it that even' the most inaccessible lancet window at Windsor Castle was invisible by night.

The housekeeper had some difculty in the early days of the war in discovering how many windows there were In the Castle. No one seemed to know for certain and, night after night, "an inspection of the outside of the Castle revealed glowing wi dows which had been overlooked.

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