Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-21

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'Nickle Plate Was Just Like the True Prime
Who Felt the Crumpled Rose Leaf Unde
Twenty-four Mattresses"
An Adaptation of MIR. Kay Nelson's Charming PIett
rRs. HOPE ATTERBURY. daughter OF the
mi late Lewis Atterbury of New York. and
one of the few women in fashionable so
ciety who exhibits her own stables at the Horse
Show. won every prize in the show just ended
with a horse called Nickel Plate. Nobody had
ever heard anything about Nickel Plate. Yet over
night. almost Nickel Plate became the champion
saddle horse Of America. winning the blue ribbon
over the finest horses of America and the pick
OF army horses of England and Belgium. In June
he will compete at the International Show in
London against the finest horses of the Cont
nent. Yet knew that Nickel Plate makes an
equine fairy story worthy OF Grimm.
A year ago Nickel Plate was dragging a ped
ders cart around the streets of Louisville Ky.
Before that he had been undergoing painful util-
tartan experiences a farm. He wasn't any
good on the farm and he wasn't any good in the
shafts of the peddlers cart, but when Nickel Plate
was rescued from work and came up to the Horse
Show, its blazing lights it's equally blazing Jewels
pretty women all around and the excitement OF
an entirely useless but extremely ornamental
~N~ANN'SAA
he had been born for Right away he became
champion!
There is very well known old fairy story
called The True Princess" which Ate NYoIoI
Plates case exactly. The True Princess wns
spirited away when she was very young and later
on there were lot of rival claimants each saw
ing that she was the true Princess and wanting
10 take her rightful place on the throne Tbo
true Princess was there, 100, but for years OH
had been doing housework. The Court and 49,
Prime Ministers, and even the true Princess,s
parents, were very puzzled. How from ALI tha
claimants, could they pick out the true Prineeass
Very easily!
They took twenty-four mattresses ana MIA
mem one on top OF each other and underneath
me bottom one they put cTumpled rose Leaf
Then they made all the alleged Processes slesn
on me pie OF mattresses. Every one of then,
turned IN and slept soundy, but when il came
tne true Frlncess's turn, she could not sleen ~
all shc was restless, irrtated and uncomfortahIa
You see she felt the crumpled rose leaf tbrougb
we tWehly-lour mattresses She didn't know What
was the matter. but she knew something was ths
matter. was 'nS
BY that the Court knew she was the trr.
Princess NO one whose every drop OF blood
wasn't or the deepest blue, who was NOT so
royalty and arstocratically sensitive as a fra
Princess with her lineage ought to have been
could have felt that rose leaf, and so after die,
glng In gardens and doing assorted housework
and being generally useful, the true Princess an
last came into her proper circle and lived orna-
mentally and it is to be presumed useessly ever
after.
This exactly the case with Nickel Plate
with this exception, that when the true Princess
was picked out they handed her a parchment
which told just who her mother and father were
Poor Nickel Plate has the throne but nobody
tell who his royal papa was
Nickel Plate foaled six years ago, on a
farm in the Blue Grass country. His mother so
the tale goes, was a useful member of the farm
family, and, although comely hard worker and
a contented one. His sire came from out the
State. a princely stranger to the farm, and UNI
doubtedly the cause of all his sons ambitions 1t
a brief wooing. Soon the krlncely stranger
deserted his mate and vanished. AS a colt no
cared a little bit about tne future cham
pion's shape color action He was all legs
so they called him Daddy Long-Legs
Reaching the breaking age" Daddy" was
trained to the pillow. Instnctively he hated It. he
hated the work and the coarse toll of the farm
His draughty stall made him miserable although
the other horses didn't seem to mind. lie hated
the smell Of fresh turned earth in the burrows the
language which the farmer the farm hands
would use to him at times made him droop his
head in horror ana disgust How could you ex-
pect Prince to work?
The sight of a set of harness and Dutch col
lar made him prance with fury Nickel Plate or
Daddy knew something was all wrong. He
hadn't been born for that kind of life but what
else there.
Al last the farmer gave up trying to make
pillow horse out Of Daddy" and he sold him TO
an expressman, saying;
This Daddy rs q good enough horse-but
somehow he don't seem 20 lit in well with farm
work ] don't think he likes the country He
may prefer the CITY smells and noises
But Daddy did not like the city He trotted