Arizona republican., 1920-01-11
DINNER-DANCEP PROVES TO
 BE MOST BRILLIANT EVENT
 AT THE SAN MARCOS HOTEL

As usual the high light of the social week at the San Marcos, Chandler, was the dinner dance Friday night when good music, good floor and beautiful environment were ingredients which made a perfectly good time for a ball room comfortably filled with dancers. It is the present plan of the manage ment to have dinner dances regularly every Friday evening throughout the winter.
 In out-of- door sports both the golfers and the horseback riders at the hotel had their ranks augmented by the weeks arrivals. A. c. Carson of San Francisco and W. D. Thornton of New York, who spent last winter at the San Marcos, arriving on Tuesday last, are both enthusiastic frequenters of the links, and F'ranl1lyn Roberts of Surrey, England is renewing an early ac- quaintance with the game.
 Mrs. Kirk Newell. who also spent last winter at the hotel, was an arrival on Wednesday and immediately joined Bill Huggett's brigade who sally forth from Sunset Ranch every morning on desert and mountain explorations.
 : Harry Colline. the golf professional, and General Manager Harry P. Smith are working out a tentative golfing program which will include twenty or more events scattered throughout the winter and spring, the exact details of which will be announced soon.
 During the week two little books written by former guests of the San Marcos were received at the hotel One was an allegorical sketch called "The Midnight Meeting at Versailles" by Mrs. Marian Craig Wentworth, in which ghosts of former days of peace and war meet in the hall of the peace conference at Paris. The other little book, in entirely different vein, was Mrs. Cora Berry Whitin's Wounded Words a collection of delightfully."- worded charades in verse.
 And speaking of books, 1t is won derful help to be we'll read. Now there is the case of w. F. Damon, A. C. Bartletts versatile and popular secre- tary. Besides being literary Mir. Damon is altruistic and instead of fritterng away his time on golf this past week undertook to paint the new fence of the Christian Science church. Now there Is a lot of work connected with paint ing a fence when it is made of artistic ally designed lattice work. as the one one mentioned is. Just how much work, MT. Damon soon discovered. But there was Mir Damon's altruism and besides New England conscience. It was at this juncture that MT. Damon remem- bered Tom Sawyer. He immediately began to talk to his young lady friends at the San Marcos about the fun he was having painting the Christian Science fence. It worked. l always does. We saw MT. Damon on at least one occasion playing the Whislerian critic while the young lady piled the brush. Upon giving the matter sober second thought we wonder if MT. Damon might not have been aided and abetted in his Tomsaw- yerish maneuvers. Perhaps MT. Bartlett wanted to retrieve a perfectly good secreary and decided that unless Mir. Damon received some competent as sistance, he would be secretariless until about the middle of next July.
 We are glad to report that the San Marcos had at least one representative at the Charity ball in Phoenix. The road may have seemed long and the drive cold to the older set, but Hrhen