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Show BOULDER. 157 and if he granted a divorce that day it would be such a shock to their conscience when they realized the event, they would seek a reunion. The real difficulty of the whole divorce business was that there was not sufficient display of endearment and affection between married people. If the husband would kiss his wife every morning when he left home to attend to his business, and kiss her every evening on his return, there would .be very little trouble, because it was a well-known fact, and one thoroughly established by experience, that out of true love a woman would follow her husband to the ends of the earth and live with him as contentedly if his fortunes were adverse as she would in a palace if they were prosperous; that it was the little courtesies which made married life delightful, and the want of them filled it with misery. After proceeding in this strain for nearly an hourj he declared he would not grant the divorce. Thereupon the husband arose and exclaimed, in the presence of the bystanders : " You are a most righteous Judge." The wife walked across the court room, put her hand in that of her husband, and went with him to their home. - She changed her method of making bread and he changed his course of treatment towards her. Result- unalloyed happiness and contentment, broken only by the death of one, which occurred ten years after this incident. The State University is in Boulder, and that reminds me of a story that is told of the first school house here. It was built by everybody giving what they could. Mr. Nichols found a big tree, which he cut down, intending to donate it to the school. He went for a team to haul it in, and when he returned a man had it on a wagon and was moving off. Mr. N demanded his property. The |