_Director or trustee of the following educational or public institutions_: Never offered any, except the self-assumed one of bringing up my husband. _Politics_: For the best man who is on the ticket. _Religious denomination_: Orthodox Greek. _Professional associations, learned and technical societies, decorations, etc._: None. _Member of the following philanthropic or charitable institutions (if holder of any office, so state)_: Have not any money to spare. _Social clubs_: Have not sufficient money except for golf and tennis clubs of wherever I happen to be, which if all counted will require more room than you allow me, as we roam all over the earth. _Business or professional record_: On the editorial staff of Greek newspaper _Atlantis_ for about six months in New York City. French teacher at the Comstock School, N. Y. C., for several years up to 1903. Writer since 1904. _Office or position occupied by you_: Wife. _Title of (first) book_: First Secretary. _Year first published_: 1907. _Publisher_: W. B. Dodge & Co. (extinct). * * * * * This amusing cross-examination needs to be supplemented at several points and the reader will be somewhat more enlightened by what follows. Demetra Vaka is a Greek whose ancestors lived in Constantinople for more than 700 years. Many of them were Turkish government officials. Mrs. Brown’s early life brought her constantly and intimately in touch, therefore, with the Turks. She played with Turkish children and was able to view the Turkish people without any religious prejudice whatever. But she was born, she says, with an American soul. Certain conditions revolted her, and not least among them the system of prearranged marriages. It was to escape such a marriage that she ran away from home, coming to the United States with the family of a relative. Once here, however, she was soon left to shift for herself. Alone, penniless, and not yet eighteen, she found it neither an easy nor romantic affair to get work. When finally she got on the staff of _Atlantis_ she found she liked newspaper work. But it came home to her that going on this way she would never learn English, and at that time she wanted English because she hoped to study medicine. So she became a private school teacher of French, and within two years she had charge of the French department of the school.