THE BARONET AND THE MANGLE.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 618, 12 June 1876, Page 4

THE BARONET AND THE MANGLE.

Under the head of “ The True Storj of the Baronet and the Mangle,” the Manchester Eaammer says:—“ A story having gone the rounds of the papers about Sir Gilbert Greenall, the member for Warrington, when canvassing in one of his election contests, having turned the mangle for a woman, while she pleaded with her husband to give the baronet his vote, Sir Gilbert, at the coneluding congratulatory tea party at Warrington on Friday night gave the true version of the story. He said, • You will remember a ■light incident about a mangle. I have turned a mangle many a time, and it was a very tiny house I turned the mangle in. So small was it that there was myself, a baby, the wife and the husband, and 1 firmly believe if a cat and parrot had been introduced it would have made it a very tight place, I mention the circumstance because I was telling yon that her Majesty’s Government ‘- had passed a measure for providing more - commodious houses for the working classes, which I hope you will enjoy at a very moderate rental. I went into a house where a woman was turning the mangle, and I said, “Let me turn the mangle.” I said to the woman, “ You talk to your husband, and ask him'to give me his vote, and I will turn the mangle for you while you do so.” Well, she talked to her husband, and I got the vote,’ ”