Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1901 — Long Prayers and New Disease. [ARTICLE]

Long Prayers and New Disease.

A. Capuchin monk in Detroit has incurred a serious disease of the knee from continued kneeling at prayer. The case is an aggravated one, and It la feared it will' be necessary to amputate the leg. The sufferer is Father Paschal, an inmate of the Capuchin monastery on Mount Elliot avenue. In America at least this peculiar disease Of occupation is almost unknown. Few people know anything of the disease or its remedies. Father Paschal has spent many hours regularly each day during his long life upon his knees. In Italy this attitude of devotion, continued for

generations, causes deformity of the knees In a large number of people. In the case of Italian women especially the knees are often ugly. This fact is recognized among Italian artists, who rarely employ Italian models in painting the lower limbs. In painting pictures it is customary to employ Italian women as models for the face and French models for the lower limbs. Arizona newspapers declare that deer, antelope and mountain sheep will soon be exterminated there unless immediate steps are taken for their preservation.