Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch by Alice Hegan Rice 1901
This book was originally published in 1901 and illustrated by Everett Shinn. The story is about Mrs. Wiggs, a widow, who always looks at the positive side of people and things. She lives with her children in the Cabbage Patch which in reality is just a neighborhood where ramshackle cottages played hop-scotch over the railroad tracks.