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Show BRIDE AND MAN WHO GAVE HER UP Representative Catlin and Miss Laura Morriam. JAMES S. CURTIS TO WED ISSJERli By International News Service. WASHINGTON, Oct. 32. The en-gagoment en-gagoment of Miss Laura Merrlam to James S. Curtis, assistant secretary of the treasury, was announced today. The marriage will likely take place m the late fall, if present plans mature, and will bo a brilliant alfair, Washington society, which displayed groat interest in tho announcement, did not hesitate to say that it was for love of Mr. Curtis that Miss Merriam recently re-cently iiltod former TToprcsontativc Theron -NL Callin, to whom her engagement en-gagement was announced in June. A story is going the rounds of tho clubs that Mr. Curtis informed Mr. Catlin he wns certain Miss Morriam loved him IH and not Mr. Catlin. and that she would not be happy marrying a mnn she did not jl Mr. Cntlin, the stor3' goes, immcdi-ately immcdi-ately agreed to withdraw his atten-tions, atten-tions, and shortly afterward Miss Mor-riam Mor-riam announced she had broken tho en-irngcment. en-irngcment. AH narlics nre silent as to this, interview, but it is generally ac-ccnted ac-ccnted as the true reason. Former Pooresentativo Catlin is im-mensely im-mensely wealthy, whilo Mr. Curtis is chiefly dependent on his government salary. |