The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-22

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Nkkle Plate Was Just Like the True Prir
II Who Felt the Crumpled Rose Leaf Und
I Twenty.four Mattresses"
ilaptssIon Of MIR. Kay Neiscn's Charming Pict
4 YRS. HOPE ATTERBURY. daughter Of the
MI late Lewis Atterbury OF New York, and
'e one Of the few women In fashionable So
tB who exhibits her own stables at the Horse
Eov. won every prize in the show just ended
10 horse called Nickel Plate. Nobody had
FH heard anything about Nickel Plate. Yet over
IEJAt almost Nickel Plate became the champion
eak horse of America, winning the blue ribbon
nc The finest horses of America and the pick
ktruy horses Of England and Belgium. In June
will compete at the International Show in
Iraon against the finest horses Of the Cont.
~ Yet no one knew that Nickel Plate makes IA
qiae fairy story worthy Of Grimm.
yesf ago Nickel Plate was dragging a ped
no cart around the streets of Louisville, Ky.
'a's That he had been undergoing painful utili-
rA experiences a farm. He wasn't any
Pa on The farm and he wasn't any good IN the
4h Oh the peddler's cart, but when Nickel Plate
= rescued from work and camo up 10 the Horse
'ps M blazing lights, its equally blazing jewels.
IVY women all around and the excitement or
surrey useless but extremely ornamental
spn thrilling him. Nickel Plate found what
clupon oso'nl7
~ e ,,r - very well known old fairy story
49, Inc True Princess" which fits Nickel
.stsa ss oo Exactly. Tho True Princess was
tSss. smay wnen she was very young and later
NJ ~ were lot OF rival claimants. each CAV
,,sa Ma' sne was tho true Princess and wanting
u Dir asf right1ul place on the throne The
n ha.s s was there, 200, but for wears sbn
|dns M,s'.s Jo.us houseWork. The Court and tbe
lsnis a'sters' sisters and even the true Princess,s
Enznts cov,s ,eiy puzzled. How, from all the
. easily. p.oA oo' 'ne true Princess2
.ooK twenty-four mattresses and nua,
n bottom W Top OF each other and undcrnnath
|sn thsv ,nu Uns tney put crumpled rose Let
) the r;o Aaue al the alleged Princosses sleen
mel IN 80 VI mattresses Every one Of Thorn
in,o nda anu slept soundly, but whom Il 80
d sSs rrncess's turn, she could NOT i eHii's
n spo sh iestiess, irrtated and uncomfortahia
Rtsenty'SS ~ acn the crumpled rose leaf tbrnneL
b ths nv, ,Uur mattresses. She didn't kpoxy ,hat
hler ''' Due she knew something was the
fhcess A' ,he Court knew She was tbo ,r,o
knf =, NO one whose every dron 20 ' ,, ,aus
gsly -, "e deepest blue, who was NO, W
filrsss ui,t aristocratically sensitive as trw.
'(d havo ,u ,a,, her lineage ought TO have bcen
0 IN ,nrdan. 'uat rose leaf, and so, after dig
being senas.,u 1nu DONG assorted housework
eame 'Sn.,netaly useful, the true PRINCESS AT
Aally sns my nef proper circle and lived orna-
"a AO ' ID TO DO presumed uselessIy, ever
10 Ibis as eyay exactly the case with Nickel Plate
b pIctsS sS1ceptlon, that when the trua Princaes
ht tnS t,' OUT they handed her q parchment
Ppr Ncta1 N, VINO her mother and father were,
tell NH =, rate has the throne but pobodv
Stkel 'pT pi.tl MS royal papa was.
M IN the p,, was foaled six years ago, on a
tae soes ",ue ni Irass country. Ills mother, so
My and .,% As useful member OF the farm
hotontaas; although comeIy, a hard worker and
We q prir1S, nS, His sire came from out the
1tledyS SceEy ,bo stranger to the farm, and un-
g hries PC a, cause OF all his sons ambitions. II
Etertsd NJ. ~ooing. Soon the xrfnceIy stranrer
sred ais mate and vanished Asa coli No
ns shan Nttle bit about the future cham
hey calIsa cpior or action. He was all legs.
asashipy ~ nun Daddy Long-Legs
eed to tho uo breaking age" Daddy was
lhs wort Wv, instinctivcly he hated Il, he
draugbty s,.ad and the coarse toll of the farm.
ohef bnr' o'sl made him miserable. although
MEL Of f.as, oidnt seem to mind He hated
ehgs ybioh turned earth In the burrows. tho
id Use 10 Id, tne farmer or the farm hands
q IN horr,ni niIn at times made him droon his
~ r'rince to worl august How could you oS-
nsds i5 him Ol set of harness and Dutch col
sqass know - ance with fury, Nickel Plato or
qt been hor, something was all wrong. He
saa there ior that kind of lifa-but what
bora, ,ne farmer gave I'm irving 70 rn.ro
1db 90 ian, saying: "nu nc so'u MIN 10
r.how no dS,,, Us good enough horse-but
don'tV ~ 81 seem 70 fit in well with farm
bht hwtsIer the ci,'. h ne likes the country. He
~ naddyi Jiy S,Sy smells aud noises"
N mol like the city. He trotted