The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-30

Wondrously gowned and perceptibly
perfumed, Nine. Adele Marie Rique,
counselor and speaker at the Circle
of Universal Soul Freedom" descended
yesterday afternoon into the common
ordinary West Side court with a bevy
of adoring followers. There she lis
tened haughtily to the testimony of
two women who went to her for
"treatm ent," took the stand, and ex-
pounded her theories of forces and
harmony, paid respectful attention
while Mirabeau l. Towne compared
her to the Pope and John Wesley, and
at the end of it all was panied to hear
Magistrate House hold her for trial in
special sessions on a charge of prac-
ticing medicine without a license
The two women were Mrs Isabella
Goodwin, police matron at headquart-
ers, and Mrs Frances E. Benzecry an
investigator employed by the county
medical society in this as we'll as in the
cases against the Christian Science
healers.
Promptly at o'clock Nine. Riuue
swept into court. She was all in white.
from her hat of straw and lace to her
high-heeled slippers. and her thin
gown, cut in three fiounces, to say
nothing of the soupcon of powder that
lurked about her features. The whole
effect was quite girlish, although Nine.
Rique has not been a girl for some
time.
who said that she went to Nine.
Rique's apartment at 128 West Sew
enty-second street on August 2, com
planning of a headache, a pain at the
base of her brain, and a lump in her
chest.
"she told me-" said Mrs. Goodwin
testified, that every day when I wake
up I must say good morning to my
soul without fail, and that every day at
II all advanced New Thoughtists say,
God and myself, myself and Cod"
Nine. Rique also told her to stretch
her arms out and swing about in cir
Gle murmuring, "All this belongs to
me. all this is NINE" That, madame
said, would give her power, and added
that one of her pupils enjoyed calling
the circle thus described her real es-
tate, from which she could bid intrud-
ers get off the grass. Mrs. Goodwin
also said that Nine Rique had recon-
mended camomile tea
This was on the second visit when
she was informed that her colors were
bright green and red. and that next
winter little brown costume with
scarlet, with a scarlet vest and a brown
toQue decorated with scarlet berries
or bunch of geraniums would take
fifteen years off her age. Mrs Good
win also spoke of having been told to
use strong Oriental perfume, in
stead of the delicate one her retiring
disposition might have selected
she told me to use such a perfume
and when I went into a store all the
clerks would drop whatever they were
doing and hurry to wait on me. She
said that any one who did not like her
perfume did not care for her"
There was also. according to Mrs
Goodwin, some rubbing of alcohol. and
she said that when Nine. Rique finish
ed rubbing it in her neck she declared
she had rubbed the soul and BODY to-
gether so that they could never beconn
disconnected again."
Mrs. Benzecry said she presented
herself to Nine. Rique with a pain in
the stomach, to be told, among other
things. that she was a beautiful tenn
pie, and that if she wore carnations TO
a ball she would attract every one to
her.
1.-THE doctors are all jealous of us:
We get along so nicely" was a senti-
ment she attributed to Nine Rique
Mrs. Benzecry received the badge of
the order, that has a key as part of its
design-a key, it was explained, that
sym bolized the sixth sense.
what is your profession ?" Nine
Rique was asked.
soul education" was the reply. and
she added that her circle held meet
ings every Sunday morning for the en-
nobling of character.
1.-THE God essence is in you" she
said, looking at Magistrate House
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