Show i STUBBS In one of Dr S S. S Weir Mitchells Mitchell's stories tories Is described a man who had hadeen been een in the wars A cannon ball bail had taken of oft his leg as another and md earler earlier ear- ear ler lier cannon ball had taken takemi off oft the leg lega a of Ben Battle the soldier bold But ButIn ButIn In n the case ease of Dr Mitchells Mitchell's man other other oth oth- er cannon balls came along an and took oC off his other leg and then one b by byone byone one both of his arms until arms he was nothing but a trunk I i iHo Ho He lived hived and recovered reco rho They took him bun to the hospital ari and amid it was easy casy mane money noney that he ne never e would get away But In time he did The They called him Stubbs because he had hall so 50 many n-many of them hem It was discovered by a nurse that Stubbs slept only three hours Inthe in inthe inthe the night and that fot for the rest of tho the time he lie was alert antI and capable He read rend as much as he lie could coul and there mere being a dearth Of f choice In the matter matter matter mat mat- ter of or books he read what they had Of or these one book on the production and movement and marketing of t wheat occupied much o of his time It was tho ti-me one book that no one else elso wante wanted If Mark Maric Twain or Kipling W were laid down own any patient in time the house hOUS could get it before Stubbs But Dut when ho he left eft his statistics h he found It right there In the time after hours So that he read It through four or ai live five t times I m es An And ho he didn't eat as much as the rest of time the men Indeed It was finally finally fin fin- all ally noted b by the nurses an and after them b by the time doctors that mat Stubbs was getting along on half haU the food and und half halt the tho rest required by other men in fair health The trouble with him was that he hewa was wa mentally so active he could coul think all around the nurses nurse and remember when the they were tired and lIld originate new things to talk about when they were sleepy His Ills brain was in a state of or constant activity for twenty hours out of or the twenty After Arter while he took his pension mone money and anti bought wheat The market market market mar mar- ket rose roc and ho bought again Suddenly Suddenly Sud Sud- denly one ono day he lie lia had the tho nurse telephone telephone tele tele- Ie phone the time broker to sell And that day clay the tho market came down clown with a tumble Stubbs sal said he lie knew It would After some seine months he le left l the hospital hos imos- pital and established med himself In rooms and had an and h he bought and sold both for tor himself and for fOl others Ho ITo just couldn't get enough work to do O. O He lie would w rl twenty ho hours hors rs a aday aday aday day wearing out two rela relays 5 of at clerks and ani going home in lii pretty prett good shape An And he got goat along with ti the three hours of or sleep and ancl with about two about two sandwiches sand- sand Miches a day a with a glass of milk In addition l If the work were wera especially hard Stubbs figured it It out There wasn't as much surface in his case as In the bodies bocHes of at other men maca Ho had lost j just st about half halt his lla natural ural self seif And the waste tJ that a goes on ri through the J I I pores of the skin was lessened lessene for Cor him He lIe hn had lost about half hal imI his body hody and he I didn't need to eat ent so much to sustain the remainder And Amid as he needed le s food so he needed less time for fOl nature to knit up the ti-me ravelled ravelled mv- mv died sleeve of care caie That made him twice as effective as other men From it all Stubbs deduced the theor theory the the- or cry ory that people dont don't need arms anus and legs lpG's and he advocated cutting them oft off except In case of men who have devoted themselves to a life o of manual manual man man- ual labor And Amid considering that men generally dont don't have ha more mi-more than half time enough to do the things the they want to do 10 we are inclined to believe the tue Stubbs plan Is a good thing Particularly In this weather |