The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-05-24
Mrs. HOrWitZ's Ball.

About fifty years ago, when the Elk
ton Academy was much less pretentious
building than it is now, its destinies were
for time presided over by young gen.
tleman named Orville Horwitz. He was
man of scholarly attainments and fine
intellectual ability. He was a student at
law when here and was afterwards ad-
mitted to the bar of Baltimore, where he
soon made reputation as learned aud
skillful advocate. Somewhat late in life
and after be had acquired large wealth,
he married daughter of the late DR..
Gross, a distinguished surgeon of Phila-
delphla. Mrs. Horwitz became social
leader in Baltimore, as we'll as an elder
sister who had married a younger brother
of her husband, Mr.. BENZ. Horwitz, also
a member of the bar, and whose daugh-
ter, Miss Adele Horwitz, is now belle
of the Monumental City. Still another
brother. Mr. Theophilus Horwitz. mar
ried Miss Mary Barroll, a daughter of the
late James E. Barroll, Esq. late of Holly
Hall, near this town, and during his life
successful lawyer. Mr.. Orville Horwitz
departed this life few years ago leaving
large estate, his daughters now having
attained womanhood, and it is to notice
their social achievements abroad that we
copy the following notice of a ball given
recently at Rome by Mrs. Horwitz which
it seems was the talk" Of the Eternal
City, aud proved great social success.
The letter says After one of the
dullest seasons Rome has ever known
Mrs. Orville Horwitz's ball was a refresh
ing success. Nobody else had given a
ball this year, so, of course, everybody
who was asked went. The hostess big
apartment in the Tosonia Palace was too
small to accommodate all her friends,
and she gave her dance in the Hotel de
Rome. This is Mrs. Horwitz's first win
ter in Rome, and everybody is wonder
ing how she has managed to know so
many nice people in such short time.
MRS. Horwitz's career i'll Rome has
been short but extraordinary. She is
charming woman, formerly of Baltimore.
She came here last January with repu-
tatiou for unbounded wealth and two
manageable daughters. Manageable
| daughters of American mothers are al
| ways the best cards in the pack in Italy.
| If they don't take king they are al
ways good for knlve. A clever wo-
man, who talks amiably, entertains ex-
cellently and moves rapidly, Mrs. Hor-
WITT had no sooner taken her handsome
apartments than somebody introduced
count, the count presented his friend the
marquis, the marquis had duke to trot
out, and a couple OF Roman princes were
next forthcoming. Then one of these
gentlemen had the American introduced
to duchess, who took the foreign lady
under her matrouly wing. And thus the
lady's career moved on apaoe. Her
daughters, like nearly all American girls,
proved charming creatures. So when
Mrs. Horwitz's cards came out for big
dance society was all agog.
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There were princes and princesses. dukes
and duehesses. and other titled people by
the score All the called swell Amer
leans in Rome we're on hand, but there
were a great many people from the other
side of the water whose absence was par
ticularly noticeable. These belonging to
a rather exclusive set, who, after years
of patient pertinacity, have grown to be
regarded here as very good form. They
are interesting studies. For the most
part they are six thousand-dollar' PEG.
pie, who abandoned America and climb
ed to the loftiest social pinnacle here.
You would scarcely recognize them by
their names either in Nsw York, Phila-
delphia or Boston, but by astute finan-
cering they have made the Sc, 900 go
very far in Rome. They stayed away
from Mrs. Horwitz's dance simply be-
cause they deemed it necessary to mani
fest in this way their Judgment of people
who are indicate enough to have larger
incomes and to leap in two months to the
top of the big hill they have been climb
ing so long,