MrPunch's history of modern England . THE POLKA 1. My Polka before Six Lessons. 2. My Polka after Six Lessons. 210 Polkamania so widely diffused as in 1920, but to judge from the History,Symptoms, and Progress of the Polkamania, all strata ofSociety were affected : — That obstinate and tormenting- disease, the Polkamania, is saidto have originated in Bohemia; in consequence, we may presumefrom analogy, of the bite of some rabid insect like the TarantulaSpider, although the Polka Spider has not yet been described byentomologists ; but, when discovered, it probably will be under thename of Arane
MrPunch's history of modern England . THE POLKA 1. My Polka before Six Lessons. 2. My Polka after Six Lessons. 210 Polkamania so widely diffused as in 1920, but to judge from the History,Symptoms, and Progress of the Polkamania, all strata ofSociety were affected : — That obstinate and tormenting- disease, the Polkamania, is saidto have originated in Bohemia; in consequence, we may presumefrom analogy, of the bite of some rabid insect like the TarantulaSpider, although the Polka Spider has not yet been described byentomologists ; but, when discovered, it probably will be under thename of Aranea Polkapoietica. The Polkamania, after ragingfiercely for some time in the principal cities of the Continent, atlength made its appearance in London, having been imported byM. JuUien, who inoculated certain Countesses and others with itsspecific virus, which he is said to have obtained from a Bohemiannobleman. The form of its eruption was at first circular, corre-sponding to the circles of fashion ; but it has now extended to the -
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