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very cold season. Subsistence stores.

I regret that I feel compelled to state that women who have formerly been employed, and who expressed satisfaction with the payment they received now ask for "a ticket" rather than for instruction & employment. For this I cannot blame them. They know that large distributions are being gratuitously made by the Bureau to the destitute, and they naturally hope for a share of the appropriation. The ragged & hungry crowds that throng the issuing depot and are seen leaving with generous supplies, attract the attention of the working women and they feel that they, too, ought to have "a ticket".

Some of these I know to be very poor and in need of more aid than I can give them. They are disheartened. I try to encourage them, but cold & hunger plead powerfully. Had I the privilege I would gladly recommend these deserving poor to the relief of the Bureau.

This morning I had occasion to see a woman, for whom a service place had been procured. At a late hour, she & her children were in bed because they had nothing in the house to eat and no fuel, with which to make a fire. I, of course,