Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch: Mrs. Wiggs is 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. Mrs. Wiggs is 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