Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1895 — WORLD’S WICKEDEST WOMAN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WORLD’S WICKEDEST WOMAN.

Jane Cakebread, Who Haa Been Arretted 289 Times. All London is laughing Just now and all at the expense of Lady Henry Somerset. Some time ago she took upon herself the reformation of Jane Cakebread, the “wickedest woman In London,” or, as some say, “in the world.” Poor old Jane has a record of which she is very proud. She has been arrested,

up to the time when Lady Somerset took her in charge, 288 times. Kate was not bad at heart, she was not cruel, she had never wilfully harmed a human being. She was merely drunken and immoral—drunken because she liked drunkenness, immoral because she lived by Immorality. Take away the temptation to drunkenness and the Incentive to immorality, thought good Lady Henry, and there you are. , So she prepared for Jane a nice, com-j sortable little cottage and the gentlest) of supervision down In the bracing air of Surrey. Jane was touched by the kindness of her would-be patroness, but she took time to revolve In her mind whether she should accept this scheme for her sobriety and comfort. Finally, she yielded. At her urgent entreaty, however, she was granted a day to say god-by to her old friends before beginning her new life. The farewells were celebrated in the good old style to which she had long been accustomed, and the result was that by nightfall Jane Cakebread had achieved her 289th arrest and gotten a month of hard labor In Cambridge prison. And that is why London Is laughing.

JANE CAKEBREAD.