The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-31
ENGLAND'S KING HOLDS LICENSE
 TO KEEP BAR
7 Encouragement Of Tenn perance Is Aim Of
 The Feathers

LONDON, August 30-(By Asso- ciated Press. )-Among the little known of the multifarious activities of Eng. lands king is that he is the landlord of fully licensed ''public-house" and that asa saloonkeeper His ,Majesity is that as a saloonkeeper His Majesty is throughout the kingdom.
 His establishment, the Feathers Hoter' near Deringham, Norfolk, is not exactly a hotel but neither is it one of the swinging door drink empor iums such as many Americans remem- Der. It is rated as one of the few thirst quenching retreats in the land where a high moral tone is combined with the consumption of alcoholic bev. erages--in fact the encouragement of temperance is said to be the guiding aim of the kings bar.
 Royal Manager
 Naturally King George does not don . white apron and help out behind the bar on busy Saturday afternoons when the weeks work is finished and crowds of village yokels drop in at "The Feathers" to slack their thirsts, but he has a manager of great social im- portance in Lord Ullswater, former speaker of the house of commons, who Is president of the Peoples Refresh. ment House association, of which the kings saloon is a member.
 There are ITO of these saloons un. der Lord Ullswater's supervision. Neither the brewers nor distillers owr stock in them and the local managers receive no profit on alcoholic sales. They gre encouraged to sell food and non-intoxicants and their provision for luncheons and teas in bright rooms dis. tinct from the bars is a feature which is graduaIIy removing the grievance of the motorists in England that only the ulqulteus beer and cheese of the countryside inn is availble during tours.
 Lean Toward Water COIOrs
 Great Britain's women painters show a decided tendency to express them. selves in water colors rather than oils. This is the most striking feature of the women artists exhibition, the object of which is to give the public oppor. tunity of seeing works by women art ists of all schools.
 Already it has revived the question, Is it possible for a woman to paint q great picture? Male critics who an- swer in the negative fall back on the familiar argument that the long gen. erations of repression which the wo men have undergone account for theiE failure to produce great art. Their output lacks genuine impulse and orig inality, say some of the men critics.
 Mrs. Phoebe Stabler, woman sculptor whose work attracted much attention at the last Royal Academy, is one who rejects this thesis.
 q do not agree that women artists lack creative ability" she says. a can foresee the time when we shall hail a woman Michael Angelo and Leonardo da Vinci. The men are too prolific in the production of Michael Angeles and da Vincis. I think women are po- tentialIy capable of as great concep- lions and ambitions as any man painter of sculptor that has gone before"
 The exhibition, which bids fair to attract wide interest, was organized lbS the Three Arts club in cooperation with faculty and arts. It will continue until October.
 A new type of chaperon known as the "chaperonette'-a sort of flapper of the species-has made her appear. ance in England and is busting Eng fish spinsters and aunts from the jobs they have held since the prim and proper days of Queen Victoria.
 There is nothing Old-maidish, ma tronly or grandmotherly about the chaperonette. She is often as gay as her charge and sometimes she is about the same age. The mothers point of view of the chaperonette is that she is more effective than her predecessor, for she understands the attitude of modern young people toward life.
 It is said the young ladies of Eng land are hopeful of some day being emancipated like their American cous' ins from the bonds of chaperonage, but until then they are willing to put fp with flapper chaperones.