In Honor of Five Decades of Marital Bliss

Mister and Mrs. Arthur Henderson celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary with a dinner reception at their modest rambler on the city's East Side this past week. Their extended family, close friends, and select city dignitaries were in attendance to hail the couple on their marital achievements over the last half century. Soup was served ('Thin and unsavory' noted one partaker) and Mister Henderson's extensive collection of primate photography was on display in testament to his life long dream (sadly unrealized) of being hailed as the 'Dian Fossey' of Saint Paul. Many glasses were raised to Mrs. Henderson's unwavering patience with her husband's simian obsession and she was heard to quip (after several banana daquiries) that, with all the time he spent at the Area Zoo's Monkey House with his ancient Polaroid camera, Arthur should have been crowned 'Lord Greystoke; King of the Lazy Do-Nothings.' The gala event came to a uncomfortable end when Mister Henderson, clad in his homemade lifelike orangutan costume, caught fire from a well-aimed cigarette butt flicked from his wife's general direction.

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