"The ********* beats his throbbing drum: (8) The ********** pecks and flits: (9) The ****** flashes by." (10) "The *** red-breast Peeps o'er her nest In the midst of the crab-blossoms blushing." (11) "From morn to morn a merry ****** Sings hymns to sunrise." (12) "Yonder gaudy ******* harshly cries, As red and gold flash all the eastern skies." (13) * * * * * Answers to Kinks. No. 6. 1. Drum. 2. Assassin. 3. Bat. 4. Sole, soul. [Illustration: THE PUDDING STICK] This Department is conducted in the interest of Girls and Young Women, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on the subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address Editor. "How shall I perform an introduction?" inquires a girl who likes to do things gracefully, and who is entirely right in her notion that for most things there is a right way and also a wrong one. Introducing people is neither difficult nor occult, and it requires no special training. There are a few very simple rules to be observed. You present a gentleman to a lady, and a younger to an older person. You are careful to speak clearly and distinctly, for nothing is more embarrassing than to have a stranger's name mumbled so that it remains unknown, thus defeating the end of the introduction. You do not say, "Mamma, let me present my classmate," leaving your mother to guess at the part of your speech which was really the most important; you say, "My classmate, Miss Leonard." And, equally, when you are introducing Miss Leonard to your friend you do not say, "Alice, may I introduce my cousin Sophie," in which case neither young woman would have the least idea of more than the other's Christian name. If a person is a personage--a professor, or doctor, or clergyman, or in any way noted or famous--the tactful young girl makes the title a part of her introduction, so that the people presented to him are aware that they are honored by the new acquaintance.