CARTOON - SILENCE IS NOT ALWAYS GOLDEN - AND THE LAW MAKES A POOR CUPID

1922
Overview

Scene of a couple at a breakfast table. The man is to the left and is wearing a smoking jacket. The female is at the other end of the table. A cat stands on the table. Sitting on the front edge of the table in the middle is a cupid with the head of an old man wiping away tears with a handkerchief. He is holding a quiver of arrows.
Ben Strange Signature left of middle.
When the cartoon was published in the Western Mail on 1 June 1922 it included the caption: SILENCE IS NOT ALWAYS GOLDEN AND THE LAW MAKES A POOR CUPID.
In a recent divorce case the position was that husband and Wife live in the same house and the Wife would not speak to her husband. His Honour (Justice Burnside) said he could not force the wife to live with her husband and not to do the things alleged of her. He could not order her to love her Husband and to speak to him.'

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The Ben Strange cartoons are historically significant as they depict many key figures linked to the history and development of both Western Australia and Australia. Political figures who regularly appeared in his cartoon’s included John ‘Happy Jack’

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cwa-org-33-AK1999.78
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Year
1922
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City of Armadale - History House

City of Armadale - History House

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