The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-14
Spare Time
Is Problem
for JOblesS
Prince Mdivani Advised
to Grow Ginseng When
Polo Pals.
BY EVELYN SEELEY
Times Special Writer

NEW YORK. Dec. 14.-So Prince
L NMdivani has a leisure problem
too. along with all the American
husbands recently afflicted with the
five-dsy week and the fourteen mil
lion husbands granted in the last
few years the leisure Of the seven
day unemployed
Well, man has to do some
thingl" said Princess Barbara Hut
ton Mdivani, when a reporter, pry-
ing into the reported marital break,
suggested perhaps the prince was
OVERRIDING polo.
The poor princel Perhaps we
could help him. There is a little
book on How to Spend Our Hus-
bands Leisure" published by the
Leisure League of America, which
might prove useful TO the princess.
1t begins with a note of sympathy
for the bewildered wife of the idle
husband. 1t says:
Even granted that you are su-
preme in your little kingdom
you do not know what to do with
him (your husband). . You can
not shove him into a closet like a
stepladder until you need him. You
can not treat him like a porter
that you don't have to tip and that
you can cuss without being hailed
into the police court for it."
Problem Solved.
To find out what the prince could
do with his time besides play polo
her highneSs has only to turn to
the key answering these questions:
Cd Does he (your husband) enjoy
the limelight? ~ Is he the helpful
kind? 30 Is he practical-good at
mending. building? "a Is he ener-
getic? go Is he artistic?
Suppose the prince fits best into
No. and No. 5. The answer then
suggests he should make a study of
eating as a fine art, should go to
the theater. collect rare books, take
up card tricks, furnish a room for
himself in the modernistic style,
turn himself loose on a rock garden.
But there are many other things
he can do, depending on the facets
Of his character. Solitaire is sug-
gested, a frog pool, the study of x
rays, the production of ginseng. Gin
seng growing is declared eXce-.ent
as a defense mechanism. 1t takes
five years. Asked what he is doing,
the prince they would only have to
say, Il am growing ginseng"
RaccOOns Suggested
The love life of tropical fish,
chicken raising, making cheescs,
learning to do rope tricks, raising
SiX-foot beans, Japanese art, STAFF
fordshire pottery, letter writing
how about those2 "Or he can keep a
horse-he can ride it, race it or
hitch it to the sleigh"
Investing in a peacock or a rae
coon is strongly urged for leisure
stricken husbands. If there is no
garden for the peacock to beautify
he can make a garden. And a rae
coon is a fine thing to awaken a
mans better nature.
The prize idea of all is that the
leisured man start a restaurant
for the birds and squirrelsl
This little book, so cleverly writ
ten. was not aimed at the prince, it
is true. 1t considers, according to
the preface, the husbands deprived
of fourteen million jobs" And in
that case its flippancy, thus flung
in the faces of fourteen million de-
feated men, is cruelty. The irony of
suggesting peacocks. gardens, rae
coons, horses and even the raising
of fine cattle, to the man without a
job. is scarcely amusing.
Yet. after all. if a husband has
to have something to do" when polo
begins to pail. why not a little gin
seng growing, or raccoon or peacock
raising. or the management of a
restaurant for birds and squirrels?