Lady's Tale

Mrs. Alf Landon, bashful in politics, has made not one campaign trip with her Nominee-husband, has made not one public campaign speech. Once or twice she has spoken off the record at small gatherings of women's clubs in Kansas, but until last week it appeared that the campaign of 1936 was to pass into history without her contributing a single word to the record. Not to be completely left out, however, she attended a meeting last week in Topeka of the Independent Coalition of American Women and there she told a story:

"Recently I had a letter from a friend in Chicago who said all members of the family were enthusiastic for the cause save one sister, who was for Roosevelt.

"That sister had an operation and it became necessary to give her a blood transfusion. A brother gave his blood. As she was lying very ill and he nearby, she said: 'Oh, I'll do anything for you.'

" 'All right,' the brother replied, 'Vote for Landon. You've got Republican blood in you now.' "

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