The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-16
SUPREME COURTS CIRCLE
THE LADIES OPENED THEIR so
CIAL SEASON LAST MONDAY.

CIAL SEASON LAST MONDAY.
Chief Justice Fuller's Home L.He-Jus-
tice Lamsr's Happy Marriage-Mrs.
Fields Shakespeare's Studies-One
of Justice Fields Cholera Expert
ences in the Far Eest-Mrs- Gray
and Her Washington Hometown
Justice Bradley Lives and Enter
teins - Justice Harlan's Mansion -
Supreme Court Widows.
From, the Ne,1 York Sun.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 14.-The supreme
court met on Monday, and the ladies of
this important branch Of Washington
society opened the social season. They
have their houses in order, and the quiet
little dinners so noted in our highest judi
cial circles, will commence at once. The
supreme court circle is by far the most in
dependent and most exclusive Of all the
divisions of Washington society. Here
women are sticklers as to the rank Of their
husbands, and it is a question IN the minds
OF the justices as to whether socially
they ought not to stand higher
than the senator's and representatives,
and even the President of the United States.
They are appointed for life and the worry
Of a possible lost job never brings dyspepsia
to their fair round bellies with good capOn
lined" Nothing but an impeachment can
| cut justice of the supreme court out of
| his salary, and some of these old judges
have received fortunes out of Uncle Sans
pockets. Justice Miller received more than
| $3.50 900 before he died. Justice Field has
| done almost equally as well, and Bradley
| and Harlan have each received several
| times enough to buy 1,0OO-ac-e farm. L. it
| any wonder that these men grow fat ? Is
it any wonder that their wives are rather
| independent in tine other social elements
Is it any wonder that their faces shine with
| good living that their cheeks bloom with
| contentment, and that they sleep well o.
nights They have positions of assured
responsibility, and whether it rains or shines,
whether we have tariff or free trade,
whether congresses come or congresses go,
| they get their $4,000 a year, their 1888 a
month, or their $27 day, year in and year
out | could geu fat on it too. Could not
yous
THE CHIEF JUSTICES FAMILY.
Most of the judges are rich in their own
| right. Judge Bradley made fortune be-
fore he was appointed to the bench. Gray
| inherited pile of dollars. Chief Justice
Fuller has always been a money making
lawyer. He has invested his earnings, and
he has a good income in addition to his
| S10,500. The most of his girls have finished
their education, and he is amply able TO
keep up his rather expensive family. He
is as rich in girls as he is in money; and
he has eight, several of whom have been
| in Germany at school during the
past year. All of his daughters are bright.
They dress well, and Mildred, who gradu-
ated at Wells College about two years
ago, was one of the striking bellies of the
| last aONial ha iQ fa1
| girl, with bright, interesting face, and is
the literary member Of the Fuller family.
She wrote a play called Vanity Fair"
while she was at school, and she was
| noted as an essayist She made
her first entrance into society last
season, and she assisted her mother to
| receive at New Years. The Fuller family
will continue to live In the Van Wyck man
sion on Massachusetts avenue, though l
understand that tae justice has bought q
lot and is building a house. There is no
more comfortable home in the capital than
that Of the Fullers, and there is none more
homelike. The chief justice is jolly, good
fellow in his own home. He is man Of
fine education, and has one of the best
libraries at the capital.
JUSTICE LAMAR.
| saw Justice Lamar yesterday. He does
not look at all well. His shoulders are
stopped, his brown name of hair, which
| rests upon his coat collar, is tinged with
gray, and his sallow face appears to be full
| of bile. He had the grip st winter, and
his system was hardly able to stand the
drain. ! have heard it said that he has the
stomach of an anaconda, but l doubt 1t.
| His father was dyspeptic, and he committed
| suicide while dellrious from one of his fits
of dyspepsia, and Lamar himself has been
more or less ailing for years. He has a very
| happy home life, and his second honey
moon has been quite as happy as his first
! one. You all remember the romance of his
second marriage. He knew his present
wife when she was girl and he was a boy
in his teens. The two fell in love with one
another, but Miss Dean was captured by a
successful business man named Holt. Holt
was a railroad king of the south and his
home was a noted ooe. He died some years
ago. Lamar also married and his wife died.
| Now the two come together again and their
union is happy one, Mrs. Lamar is a
pretty woman, with beautiful silvery wnite
hair; she has an erect and graceful carriage
she is a good talker and is popular in Wash
| ington society. Lamar's first wife was also
| finely educated woman. She was cousin
of Gen. Longstreet
MRS. FIELD.
One of the finest looking women of the
supreme court is Mrs. Stephen j. Field.
She is large. handsome and well preserved.
She is a good talker and the Field house
has been for years one of the greatest So
cial centers of Washington. Mrs. Field has
been spending the past season in Europe in
company with her niece. Miss Alice Con.
dict Smith. During the tour she passed
through Standardization and took a look
at Shakespeare's birthplace. Mrs. Field is a
Shakespeare student, and she is the founder
and chief patroness of q club of Shakes
peare women students which meets here
during the winter. Judge Fields friends
like to think that he is a living presentation
of Shakespeare. His big bald head and full
high forehead look like one of Shakespeare:
busts and his pointed beard carries out the
illusion.
1t is also said that Tom Reed looks like
Shakespeare, but Reeds face is more like
that of the man in the moon than it is like
that of Judge Fields, so that it is hard tc
reconcile the two resemblancss. 1t seems tc
me that Justice Field looks older since tn,
, appointment of Chief Justice Fuller. Fielc
had the right to expect the chief jIsticeship
He was one of the leading democrats of tht
country, had already distinguished himsel
on the bench, and it would have been til,
most natural thing in the world for Cleve-
i land TO lift him up step and appoin