New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-03

how TO dress myself IN civilized clothes
| have worn nothing but blue checked
gingham for thirty-siN years. There
were lots OF little things like these
newfangled snapper that ! didn't ur.
derstand. I am going to wait little
while before ! get many now c'othcs
They say the skirts are going 70 be
wider this spring. couldn't stand y
20 wear hobbie skirt, Im sure.
Studied Fashions in Cell.
"Oh. I'm not so ignorant about fash
ions az rou think. You know. ] have
had magazines and books al these
years. and we had visitors. too. V .
weren't entirely dead to the world.
was interested to sec the old black s,i,.
dress had when first went there. W.
daughter had saved il al these wears.
II had thirty-two yards Of material m
il. There was hoped unde"skiri,
silk all the way up, and draped over
skirt. 1t cost SO - yard. My grand
daughter says We could make drcsse
for ell three or as out o. all that s'lh
nov.
40. don't care much about going
shopping went into some stores m
Hartford when came ont. but they
were 50 big and strange didn't enjoy
it much, and kept thinking that every
body knew who ! was and was staring
at me. noticed they have little trolley
cars 20 carry the money I'm. In my days
they used 20 have cash girl.
My friends said my educate
wouldn't be complete until ] had seen
= motion picture show. so We wen
there Saturday evening. don't carc
about going again
From Hartford We got TO talking about
New York had some pictures Of sk.
scrapers. but Mr. Cobb's interest in
them was mild.
"I'G like to see Brooklyn Bridge.
she said. They were just building that
the last time ! was io New York. J
remember We went - = big store. Oh,
! don't remember the name. IFS SO
long ago. A. T. Stewart's" Maybe thai
WAS il; ! don't remcmbcr.'
Memories a Refuge
The pathetic thing about Mr.. Cobb
is that she has so little TO remember
except those prison years They ave
her life. and her t'mld thoughts, after
venture into the great world, seem
GLAD 20 come bacs 20 roost m the ia
miiar prison cell. IN spite OF all the
sorrows Of those wears she seems to
think OF them almost kindly.
Rather, she seems incapable o. 70
sentiment. Al the passion. the hatred,
OF the woman IN her prime are gone
ironed out by prison discipline otter
ally ironed out, TOO Kate Cobb spent
seventeen years ironing % the prison
Laundry.
you don't seem TO feel Ill, bitter
ress against the state which kept you
there all that time" voiced m. Won
der
well, | was always treated kindly.
she answered. 81 have nothing 10 com
pain Of. I have many happy memories
OF my life there. Ii had to be SO. One
could not stand thirty-siN years of sor-
row. There we're times. Of course.
when | wanted TO die. when ! wished
they had cent me 30 the gsllows M the
beginning, times when ! lost ny faith
and thought never would De free
again. Then ! would remember my
children and the friends who believed
IN me. I would make Up my mind to
stick il out for siN months more. That
was the way ! lived. SIX months ~ q
time Yes. I was sentenced FOR life,
but ! had faith That some tine some
nov. Governor would pardon nc.
why didn't give up and stop ask
,ng for pardon when II had been re
fused so often? don't know. This
Isl time really had little eNpecta-
Ton that II would be granted, but ]
did il just 90 remind them was stili
there and still insisting on my limo
How did Keep my mind alert all
"My dear. tha, WAS the hardest
thing Of all -..-.,.
"One by ono the girls mo weTse mere ~.
when ! came went cray Or g'e". u
was hard on The rest Of Vs.. NC eve.
knew who would 60 neN'i r Ta', al, w.
~. , ,n .sye NV reason was by working.
All the terrible thoughts that cam to
me worked out through my hands. !
,.wcd and seyed and seped-and lAeH