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Show LIDA WATSON'S WEDDING. The Guthluf Poet of Paeaion to Marry a Wild Wantrner. Bostok, Mass., Aug. 1. Miss Lida Lewis Watson, New England's poet of passion, blushing and rosy, as her usual appearance, today confided to a few literary lit-erary friends that she bad tired of a long engagement with her western lover and proposed to have "a lively" wedding, as she expressed it, on Thursday, August 7. Since the announcement of her engagement to Charles Washington Higgins. whom she fell in love witn at lirst a week ago Sunday, society has been agog with excitement, ex-citement, anxiously anticipating some new and startling developments. It is likely to come at the wedding. Ihey are to be married at 7M) ajn., at the cathedral, whore high mass will be performed per-formed bv Archbishop Williams, assisted by'Rov. Father L. F. Roland, rector of the cathedral. The bride, who is a bright and pleasing pleas-ing young woman, and, not unlike tho groom, is tall, will bo beautifully attired at-tired in a white plush, asatin gowu nnd red slippers. She will wear garlands of red roses, while the floral decorations about tho chancel will be of white and Charles Higgins, the ' betrothed of Miss Watson. isf wealthy Missounan. Mr. Higgins. however, for some lime has resided in Montana and Dakota, where he has extuusb business interests. in-terests. He has a large-, amount of money involved in mining nnd stock raising. His mother is a native of J.ew York state and his father of Virginia, but the groom was reared in Missouri. After a brief trip Mr. Higgins and wife will become residents of Boston. |