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arms and throat soft, low voice and simple, unaffected manners She says that her creed is. Never make life hardor for any one" Certainly she lives up to 1t. She is never so busy that she cannot stop and help every one who appeals to her. She is a rainy day friend, letting persons alone in their hours of sunshine for as she quaintly remarks. There are plenty then to share their joys
 She lives in typical bachelor-girl fash ion in charming apartments; breakfasts in bed. lunches and dimes wherever she chances to be. Singularly cheery, busy, womanly, sympathetic and successful admired and respected by every one with whom she comes in touch-is the typical metropolitan newspaper woman. Miss Ada Patterson.
 If you ask the music dealers of Gotha m whose compositions sell best of all the women composers, they promptly answer. 70, Josephine Gro's"
 Mrs. Gro inherits the invention of mel ody from musical ancestors, and manages to tuck bits of delightful fancy into her most frankly popular works. She knows her harmony, and has good sense Of musical humor and great instinct for time and rhythm. She applies her knowledge of actual color and form and proportion to her musical work Moreover, she pos sesses keen insight and sympathy with pathos.
 Comic opera, farce and vaudeville. as well as many of the New York papers, are indebted to her for many tuneful dance or song. Her "Sultan's Guard is in the eyes of all musicians quite as good as any of the marches of al Ia Turca of i any of the masters.
 When she was composing this delightful patrol. her Turkish friends were accus- toned to call upon her and listen with closed eyes and reverent mien to its fan tastic strains. The Sultan himself sent the lady decoration to mark his appre- citation of her composition Her "Mandalay" Is conceded to be the l most exquisite arrangement of Kipling' s words yet submitted to the public The dreamy retrospection of the longing Tommy" the odors and languor of the Orient, even the chiming of the temple bells, are all expressed in this beautiful melody.
 Mrs Gro Is as we'll known on the Pa cifc coast as on the Atlantic. She iden- tihed herself with the Golden State in a very remarkable fashion. She wrote chorus, Hail, California" which was sung at the Los Angeles Fiesta by 6OoO school children It created such sensa- tion that 1t was at once placed by the boards of education on the course of study and library list of each large city and most of the counties, to be sung on patriotic and public occasions Moreover, "The Native Sons of the Golden West" adopted it as an auxiliary ode In the rit- ualistic work of that large order, and its inspiring strains came to be the finale of the Sunday concerts at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, for over a year.
 Mrs. Gro's tiny apartment In West Thirty-sixth street Is characteristic of herself. It is a harmony in color and design. Everything in 1t speaks of the | charming souvenirs of travel, the most prominent points of vantage being given l over to western curiosities.
 Personally, Mrs. Gro is a sweet-voiced, rosy-cheeked, compact little woman, with big, beseeching eyes as blue as turquois In her costumes and belongings she l evinces the same harmony which is shown in her surroundings and in her work.