The Sentinel=record., 1912-11-29
ARLINGTON BALL
 A BIG SUCCESS
PRIOR TO DANCING A "PLANTA. TIoN' DINNER WAS SERVED
 TO THE GUESTS.

In advance of lass nights brilliant
 ball the Arlington hotel management
 treated it's guests to an inning of jol.
 iity in the dining room. To begin
 with the Thanksgiving night dinner
 was yeritable thiumph for Steward Curtis. The spacious dining room
 was gayly and cleverly decorated A
 log cabin, surrounded by rustic fence, stood at the far end. The hotel
 orchestra was installed to the right
 and 1t rendered program of south ern airs while the diners were being served A colored quartette also sung southern melodies
 Scattered throughout the dining room, were shocks of corn and pump
 kins and pumpkin baskets, filled with
 fruit, adorned every table. The walt
 CTS were dressed in overails and jump CTS, with flaming red bandannas
 around their necks ell in all. the 4 management endeavoTed to transform
 the dining room, as much as possible,
 into a southern plantation and judg
 ing by the compliments showered up-
 on MT. Corrington, crowning thiumph
 was registered.
 MT. Werner z Reed of Colorado
 Springs, Colo; MT. A. B. Banks, of
 Fordyce, Ark; Mir. and Mrs. Howard
 Bailey. of St. Louis; MT. and Mrs.
 Otis l.. Milligan, of Springfield, Mo;
 MT and Mrs. David J. Gillespie, of
 Des Plaines, H.; Mrs. Nellie L. Will
 Hams, of Key West, Fla; Mr and
 Mrs. J. K. Ryan, of New York, and
 MT. and Mrs. H. c. Beckham, Jr.. Of
 Kansas City. Mo, had pretty floral pieces on their tables. MT. Harry
 Westcott MT. Ernest Latta and MT. R. B. Dimon, were included in the Hot Springs social colony entertain d ing.
 Ball a Brilliant Affair.
 Hot Springs winter season of gay ety is always ushered in with the
 Thanksgiving night ball at the Arl-
 ington hotel and judging by the bril-
 fancy of last nights smart affair the
 season just starting promises to be
 every bit as successful as any of it's
 many remarkable predecessors. It holds out the promise of a revival oi that inexhaustibe source of social en- ergy that makes a day during the American Carsbad's gayety period eighteen hours long There is the golf to keep up and the motoring and the long walks and last nights big holiday ball, is simply the foreTunner Of lot of other brilliant triumphs at \ the Arlington.
 The beautiful ball room was p-et- tily decorated and fairly sparkled in its new dress. The ball, strictly formal affair, attracted a splendid gathering of the smart set from the cities of the north and east. It was an evening of gayful joIliety, witn the Arlington standbys declaring the dance one of the most enjoyable they ever attended and the new corners rraising the general lavishness of the H scene.
 There were a host of notable peo- pie in the crush. MT. Charles Craig, an artist known on both sides of the Atlantic, attended, being in constant company. with MT. and Mrs. Werner Z Reed. and Miss Margery Reed that splendid family from Colorado Springs, Colo, who just like MT. Craig, are guests at the Arlington. The Edward l.. Bakewells and the Howard Bailey's of St. Louis; tine w F. Wroes, of Chicago; Mrs. J. c. Var- der Bic and the w. w. Dreurs, of St l Paul. AMifin.;; the Ahe Schaffners. of Mt Vernon, N. Y; the Salvador Ma deros, of Monterey. Mexico, and the Robert B. McRoys, of Boston. Mass were prominent among those noticed in the ball room.
 The costuming was superb. Mrs w. A. Nixon, of Great Bend, Kan; Mrs. J. H. Beckham. Jr., of Kansas City Mo-; Mrs. Frank Ray, of Lafay ] cite, Ind; Miss Jennie Williams. oi Key West, Fla. Mrs. Nennette Arn. ' old, of Goshen, Ind; Mrs. Howard Bailey, of St. Louis; Mrs. R. Witti-
 man, of Milwaukee, Miss Genevieve Hanna, of New York; Miss Ryan oi New York; Miss Lillian Howell. and ! Miss Florence Smith of Chicago; Miss Mary Hause, of Little Rock; Mrs. J. N Watts of Springfield. Ill., Mrs. w E. Wroe, of Chicago and Mrs. Saliva. 5 dor Madero. of Monterey, Mexico, were I particularly exquisitely gowned.