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Show SUPREME COURT AND SOClEf 7. Justices Form a Permanent Arlscv-racy Arlscv-racy at the Capital. Quite equal In social import- Cn vlth'the cabinet and diplomatic corps Is the supreme court, wt oh W with Its nine members appointed for life, constitutes a permanent i.rts oc-racy oc-racy which sees administration! .nr.e and go with an indifference thai sometimes some-times is described as dlgnit and sometimes as disdain. With iho exception ex-ception of tho chief justice, who is a widower, all tho members of the present pres-ent court are married, thus malting alne Important households to c nibider In making up a calendar of olli Mai society. so-ciety. Tho number of young people In this particular circle has been considerably reduced since last season, no less than four "supreme court" girls having been married since the early spring; Tlie laat of this quartette was Miss Fannie Fuller, youngest of the chief j istice's seven daughters, who surprise d her friends by a hasty return to to'vn last July, when her marriage to Dr Robert Mason, a young physician of Washington, Washing-ton, took place at the Fuller home, In F street, without the formality of any cards of Invitation and without the presence of tho bride's distinguished father. If, ns has been hinted, this last Fuller romance was against the wish of tho chief justice, who llnds It easier to preside over the highest tribunal tri-bunal of the land than to direct a household of daughters, all has been forgiven the youthful bride, who la radiantly happy In a modest flat on Nineteenth street, where she enjoys complete Immunity from tho duties ns well as honors that were hers In her father's home. Dr. Mason Is a Virginian Virgin-ian of the Virginians, a grandnephew of Gen. Robert E. Lee, and extremely popular In society, but not blessed with any fortune beyond his professional profes-sional Income. n |