Pageantitis

Aldershot has, in common with other places, had its little spasmodic attack of pageantitis. On the 9th and 10th inst., a grand military pageant and tattoo took place in the grounds of Government House.

The Kaiser has condescended to catch from us an attack of pageantitis, and it broke out in Alsace-Lorraine the other day, when his Imperial Majesty inaugurated, with mediæval pomp and circumstance, the restored Hohkönigsberg, near Schlettstadt, in Lower Alsace.

Pageantitis has reverted to an old form at the seaside watering places. Beauty shows have become quite a common attraction ....

"Madeline, can't you do something about the proliferation of pageants in these parts? Everywhere I look, a queen is springing up. Those wretched friends of yours! They must be stopped. What do you call them? Pageantitis? Pageantniks? Idiots, I say idiots!"

In 1907 in Oxford a serious outbreak of an ‘affliction of the eye and mind known in professional circles as Pageantitis’ was vividly depicted in a satirical postcard.