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New-York tribune., 1907-11-24
NO FATTED CALF FOR HIM.

Two old cronies met the other day and began
discussing some OF their mutual acquaintances
The conversation turned TO Farmer Macdonald.
Him" contemptuously exclaimed crony No .
who had never heard anything very mean laid TO
the farmers charge.
well, it's like this" answered Donald Ten
years ago he sent his wi a tin bucket to
milk the COW The son and the bucket didna come
back. and naething heard about the lad until
the ither morning. when he knocked his fathers
door As peace Offering he brocht the suld man
suit OF claes, gold watch and good gray Y
Then. interrupted crony No ? Il suppose Mac
donald wad kin the fatted calf
Not he the reply He said. Lad they
things will do very weel but where's the tin bucket
that yon took ava wi you? fit Bits.
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RHEUMATISM DOES IT.

Captain Chandler. the arriys chief asrorsut. sad
dinner in Washington the other day
The aeronaUt TO set alonS. must keep his wits
about him. Under the most adverse circumstances
he must not lose his head Always ne must Ia
alert and ready. nke-hSc-weu. like scientist
used TO know.
This scientist gave scientific lecture in
church night. and az the lecguve'S end be said.
EeRuing his audience CopdcSceO1lnSiV-
- Now. u there Is any SctSAtinc question that
any OF my friends would like - ask. 7 beg them
to hesitate. I shall be Only too s.appy to an
sWer any inquiry In my power
An old lady in Spect0cleS THAI gave her
we're. stern look. rose and said
Why do Wet tea leaves kiu reaches
The scientist didn't know they ,iii let alone ths
cause OF the phenomenon: but never at n loss he
replied:
" Because, madam. when q roach comes across
wet tea leaf. he says. Hello. here's 3 hlanket''
ana wraps himself up IN It catches cold. and
dies Los Angeles Times.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-24
Timely Musical Comment.
Opera Two Houses Some Overlapping Seems


With each Of New York's opera companies giving
SIX or seven performances week. Il viii be strange
81 the respective repertories al the Metropolitan
and the Manhattan do overlap frequently this
winter. For instance tomorrow night Verdi :
Aida" already sung several times at the Man
haitian will he repeated again at the Metro
ToIitan. Each house however. VIII have its special
set Of novelties and revvals; already Nj. Conrled
has offered -,AdriaGa LecouvTeur and 'AIetls-
Iofele." while Nr. HammeTsteiu has brought out
Les Contes d'HofTmann' and .'ThaIs'' and has
promised among other unfamiliar works. Charpen-
Iier's Louise and Debussy's "Pesas - Nell
saude.~ Last year the repertories OF the Metro
politau and the Manhattan contained ten works IN
common Besides these, Mr.. ConTied produced
nineteen operas and M Hammerstein twelve.
that altogether. there some forty-one differ
ent operas and balIets given for New Workers 10
choose from.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-24
rHE KISS IN JAPAN.

She was a japanese college student. uttis and
thin. but very graceful in her Paris gown
The kiss" she said. blushing family, was IN
known in Japan fifty years ago Now. sulo1S 80
aristocracy, II IS becoming quite renowned. soma
OF my people love the kiss
Yet II comes great shock 1rsr- Il IS -
different. YOU know. from anything n japanese
girls experience. I have known uaiSenS W1p
tainted at first kiss that was perhaps 700 warmly
rendered. Yet these very maids became afJeTwaTt
ardent advocates OF tie Western embrace
Frankly. Ike the kiss myself It's stimulus -
fragrance and the feeling. % red satin. when
mouth touches mouth with q soft shock
yes. frankly I like the kiss. and 7 dnd il
Jren1slV difficult TO deny Eny eager young man -
innocent and SO delightful an embrace Los An
geleS Times
New-York tribune., 1907-11-24
PROOF POSITIVE.

An 4rlshman was IN trouble about gun found
IN MS possession The law unfortunately for him.
adopted the unknd suggestion that he had stolen
u nile awaiting his trial he was visited by a.
1.IsilG VINO urged hn 10 Steadfastly adhere to the
statement that he had owned the gun for wears
IT 1He friend. furthermore. cited how he himself
When IN similar difficulty about a hen had pre-
served both the hen and his character by suearfns
ne had possessed the bird since IL was a Chicken
me wisdom OF this advice not lost on Pat
ana ne hencerorth regarded his trial with the set
Itea serenity or IL not conscious innocence
Sulne anticipation. on the day appointed when
conclusive evidence against him had been rendered
ne was asked, formally. whether he had anything
70 say Tor himself Pat, throwing a glance q
Shriveiling contempt at the prosecutor, turned 20
ne luds-. and said; The rans periured villain.
yer hcnor- That guns bin in moy pcsSis<cr. Yer
Inquirer.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-24

All fors I-ui. from la Traviata' Verdi
Nine Marcela Sembrich.
t;I 7 '-'''-- CNew first tiue) .Luigini
Parade Militare Cnew. first tne) Massenet
Narche des Petits Sodats de Poub Plerne
Piano obbIgato, Mr- Paul Eisler-
Songs
H-idnung Schumann
- avsieut des allies. r. Hahn
Has Wings. Rogers
NaZurka Gin Polish .Zelenski
Nine Marcela Sembrich. .
Aria froA -oteo
George Lucas
Songs
Es biink- der Taau .Rublnster
Nine. Fr'eds Langendorf
Aria Fri from 'r in Naschers' Verdi
Msrcbe Jubflaire = - frst e,........... .rehn
New-York tribune., 1907-11-24

hasis of Burns's "Scots VIVA Hae VT Wallace
BIed" as well as LADY Marines Land O. the
Ieal." vastly different the two songs are in
sentiment
This will be the programme at Mr.. Sam Franko's
first concert of old orchestral music next Wednes-
day evening at Mendelssohn Hall: Trauersym-
phonie Iocateli: concerto. Hurlebusch: ballet
suite 'Acanthe ct Ceph'sse Rameau; symphony
in Il. La Chasse.'' Haydn
Pietro Locateli. Coreu's pupil was the fore
father Of the modern violin virtuoso. As a Gre
atfve artist he was underrated by many, but thu
'Trauersyrnphonie'' written upon the death Of his
wife shows him 10 have been. az least the peer Of
his contemporaries. This work will he played on
Wednesday. it was written probably in tho first
half Of the eighteenth century. Locatelh was born
in Bergano in 1898 and died in Amsterdam i'm 1864
Karl Friedrich Hurlebusch, contemporary Of
J. :. Bach, with whom he was acquainted. was
horn in Braunschweig about 1899 and lived A siren
New-York tribune., 1907-11-24
MAKING ASSURANCE pousLY SURE

\ seven-yea--od had 4 great appetite for buck
wheat cakes. and could stow away amazing
number One morning his grandfather. who
watching the performance. asked.
Have you ever IL your lie had al the buCs-
wheat cakes that YOU could eat-'
Yes. sir replied the boy. Lots OF times Ivs
felt I'd had enough
How do You tell when YOU have had enough
Y just keep eating until I get pain. and
then eat one more 10 make sure. Te.''-Christian
New-York tribune., 1907-11-24

Regarding Max Bruchs Scotch Fantasia" the
Philharmonic Societys official commentator writes
that it was probably the first fruit OF the COM
poser's English experience. conductor FOR three
years from 1880. OF the Liverpool Philharmonic
Society. Between the composer. the publishers and
the writers for the newspapers. considerable con-
fusion has arisen touching the title of the
position. and this confusion seems 10 have been
partly responsible for some of the opinions ex-
pressed by the English critics when the work was
first heard. II having been spoken Of or an
nounced. a Scottish Concerto" G'rench review
ers gave IT the title. Concert Eccosaisse) it was
obvious that at least disappointed English
writer would hit upon the observation that II was
neither a concerto nor Seotch-not concerto be-
cause the conventional form adhered 10.
nor because Dit is 10 be supposed the critic
could not recognize the original forms Of any
Scotch melodies.
The full score bears the title Fantasia dntro-
duction. Adagio. Scherzo. Andante. Finale. for
the Violin. with Orchestra and Harp, with the
free use Of Scottish Folk melodies" All this is
retained in the arrangement of the work piano
forte accompaniment except the reference 10 the
Scottish melodies. Yet the phrase is significant
especially the qualification. free use. Bruch has
not transcribed Scottish melodies for orchestra or
written variations them. He has not produced
a single limits entirety or integrity. He has
taken fragments of melodies and combined them,
whole melodies and changed them TO suit his
purposes a musiciau-as Beethoven did in
lesser degree in his arrangements of Scotch Irish
Welsh and other songs for voice. pianofo-te violin
and violoncello.
Changes in melodies that have become endeared
TO a people by centuries of tradition not
ceived with gladness however, and it is therefore
not strange that much fault found with the
Scotch Fantasia" ''rhe melodies. Aud Rob
Norris There Was Lad Who'll Buy Ny Caller
Herrin?' Scots Wha Haze are hardly recogniz-
able" wrote critic. Perhaps for the reason
that some OF them do not occur in the composition
The second and third would have TO undergo 4
very great metamorphosis before Il parallel could
he found between them and anything IN the fan
tasia. Aud Rob Morris probably in the
mind OF Bruch when he wrote the adagio; IL is a
fine specimen of Scottish tune. and affectionate
fancy has gone foolishly far as TO attribute
its invention to Rizzio. the unfortunate friend Of
Mary Queen of Scots.
The jocose movement, scherzo, of the fantasia
is called simply dance by the composer but
no Seotchmsn would ever find reel or 4 strath-
spey which the national dances and were
clung when the aristocracy were giving
welcome foreign dances which came over To
the island from the Continent. But both reel and
stTathspey are IN common time. while Bruch's
dance is in triple time. In the martial finale use
Is made of the old tune Hey Tuttie Taitie for
which vast antiquity has bsen claimed. II is the
New-York tribune., 1907-11-24

life-now in Vienna, again in Italy, in Stock
holm. and then in Bayreuth-in the varying roles
of organst pianist and conductor. but never re-
manning long in any one place. In Hamburg he
declined the remuneratve post OF Organist because
he deemed it beneath his dignity TO comply with
the demand for the customary trial or to beg for
the votes Of the electors Because OF this pride he
remained in private life for ter years but in 1875
he went Amsterdam organist. Here he never
made Of the harpsichord for accompaniment.
but merely for improvisation and he filled
with rage If any except Locateili attempted 10
praise him. His contemporaries considered Hurle-
busch's compositions bizarre and artificial In the
concerto which Mr. Franko is 10 perform he shows
his mastery OF form and technique and displays a
wealth OF harmonic invention scarcely believable OF
a writer Of that day. The exact dates OF his birth
and death unknown.
Paderewski will be the solost at both Of the
next Boston Symphony concerts in Carnegie Hall.
on Thursday evening December D. and Saturday
afternoon. December :. On Thursday evening he
will play Beethovens concerto in T. fiat major.
The Emperor" and Saturday afternoon he
will play Rubnstein's concerto in minor No. :,
The symphony at the Thursday night concert will
be Brahms's second in d major Op 73, and the
other orchestral number will be Schumann's over
ture 'Genoveva." On the Saturday afternoon
there will be symphony and Dr. Muck Will
present two novelties, the first tone poem, en-
titled 'Taormina," by Ernst Boehe whose "Ulys-
ses's Departure and Shipwreck'' played with
success in Boston in Mr. Gericke's last year.
The other novelty will be adagio and a scherzo-
finale by Won Rezncek who is best known as
the composer of the opera comique Donna Diana"
The final number the programme Will be
Chabriers brilliant rhapsody for orchestra. en-
titled "Espaha'
Paderewsh will also be the soloist at the Boston
Symphony concert in Brooklyn Friday evening.
December 6. He viii play Rubinstein's concerto
in d minor. No l. The symphony will be
Beethoven's Pastoral" and the other number on
the programme Will be Chabrier's "Espana."
New-York tribune., 1907-11-24

Mr.. and Mrs. W ]. Kitchener are forming man
dolin and guitar clubs at their residence studio
No 157 West S4th street In the near future they
Will give concert at the Carnegie Lyceum.
William c. Carl will give a free organ recital on
Monday afternoon at o'clock in the Old First
street. Sololst Hans Kronold. 'cellist The re-
cital will be free 10 the public.
Miss Amy Grant teacher of the speaking voice
announces weekly public recitais on Sundays at
$50 p. m at her studio. No. IS West 55th street
Miss Grant states that the readings will be prin-
On December Il William Paulding De Nike of No
Hempstead Choral Society at Hempstead, Long
Island
Mrs Charlotte suiley Preshrey, president OF the
New York School of Expression. No. SIS West 57th
street, will give dramatic recital the evening
of Thanksgiving at Cobleskill. y. Y. Scenes from
ntSn{h of he enH qeS6P n @ be the
sketch. The Rehearsal" win give variety to the
programme.
Signor Guido Hocke-Caseotti piano and vocal
teacher who has a study in Carnegie Hail. Is
forming several classes at moderate terms He
may be seen Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Last week DR.. Gerrit Smith gave an organ re-
cital in Paterson. n. J. In January he will Civ.
recital on the Pan-American organ at the Audi
torium Buffalo. Next Thursday afternoon he will
address the Guilmant organ School on Grleg. Civ
ing notes OF his recent sO1Ourn with the composer
Miss Rosemarie Campbell. contralto studio No
90 West saith street. has had busy season sing
ing at concerts. etc On Thursday evening she
sang at the Union League Club Brooklyn and on
December will sing at the Elks Memorial IN
Plainheld with Townsend Fellows.
H. r. Humphries teaches singing. from rudinents
OF voice placing to artistic finishing for concerts
oratorio and church work at his studio. No. 22s
West 18th street.
Edward p Treumann, concert pianist and
teacher OF No. $50 Lenox avenue. has added ~ his
class special course in all branches on Monday
Vanced pupils recital TO take place shortly. when
New-York tribune., 1907-11-24
AT THE METROPOLITAN.

At the Metropolitan Opera House, the first per
.ormance this season OF La Boheme" will take
place on Wednesday evening Sembrich viii be
the Mimi and Bonci will appear as Rodolfo. The
performance viii mark the American debut Of Mile
Fey Dereyne. who Will sing The role of Musetta.
Nile. DeTeyne was born in Paris where she studied
at the Conservatoire. She made her first appear
in opera Nice. in the role OF Micaea, in the
season OF 1Se She remained there TWO seasons
and created the title role in Isidore de Lara's
'Sanga' and Mimi in Leoncavallo's vie de Boz
heme-" Mile. Dereyne has also sung in Paris
Marseilles and Tichy. Last year she was a mem
her OF the San Carlo Opera Company. and her last
engagement was ~ rovent Garden, in London
where she sang Musetta IN Ia Bohemes and
Media IN "Pagliacci" during the present autumn
season Of Italian opera The of La Boheme"
Will be follows:
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RECITALS.

'i'>f ffoIlQdUN second piano recital ~ tdr0esle
Hal, next Saturday afternoon:
chron'ate Fsntaisie Observation-Disclosures. Bach-risz.
Roudo Csprccioso Mendeissohn
Poame q Amour.
Ef@ss Ef@ss qs' ,,,a, %''or .se-.oln.
5sa1alsit Ma5aria. iBBP5GinP'a' @iaor.
scherzo. minor
music, at Carnegie Hall next Tuesday afternoon:
T7st,s: T,st,t: Or p - b "a FAT NJ minor. ,?.
Esiad. FsIi3- 0S 0P : g g. = (. ! Hias2 I1s]2:
Ialoneise Tn na, ralnor. op. Is. ".
I,aTtaisie imFromPtg in q 'harp miner
Ea-raroHc op 60 sharp.
E,a4s. E45s5S5 6p o5 & y 10 % . 5 ds, "a minor
4s9aas Tsfas;.a Ga's o. "a = q Ga3 3 : ''''' in'
Francis Rogers's song recital at Mendelssohn
Hall TUESDAY. afternoon. November 2s:
Sylvia. Now Your srorn Civ. Over.
bido's d 3s' lament as- ,.'nido ani Ereas'j..J
Down Among II. Dead Dyer G7o9
e'pae I, P, ----'--' Schubert
Now That Thou L(avst -T=chaEovsly
Madoh.n nit dem rotten Mdndchen FRANZ
Ja I ,1e Nay home cirieg
Tte Dying christian to HIS soul CPope,.......1iusn
Ioves symphony tOShaughness5) IAIcEstone
Ieh und Du .... F'leck 'erj
Kitty u CoeTane Irish dty
| There should be curiosity over the recital
/ in Carnegie Hall on Thanksgiving night by Denis
O'Sullvan, the Irish barytone, who lately arrived
in this country from abroad. where he has been
active in England and Ireland. Mr.. O'Sullivan IS
warmly interested in Irish music. and his efforts
have been devoted for ten years TO the revival OF
public interest in the genuine music of Erin, and
! 10 the suppression OF other tunes which ne holds
have long masqueTaded Irish music. Mr.. OSuI-
| Iivan is native OF San Francisco but has been
abroad for many years. The recital In Carnegie
| Hall next Thursday will be testimonial con-
/ cert, and number OF committees have been ap-
pointed TO take charge. One OF the principal COM
mttees Is composed OF John D. Crimmins. J. I. c.
1 Clarke. Warren Leslie. Steven FarrelIy. Michael
| j. Drunmond and John O'Connell.
| This recital will be Mr. O'Sullivan's only appear
ance in New York in the near future. he will
begin his American tour IN Peggy Machree." an
| Irish romantic musical comedy in Chicago on
| January 5
| Mr. O'Suivans programme will include many
| Irish airs and chidren's songs. as well as works
in other languages, one OF them the strangely po-
tent and little known "Poand's Dirge" by Chopin.
Mark Hambourgs piano recital at Association
| Hall, Brooklyn. Saturday afternoon;
Sonata. Op. = No B. in c major. Beethoven
Sonata Op. 30. fiat major. Chopin
| Noeturne IN b major. etudes lin q fat major
and in fla, MAJOR and valss IN fat major Chopin
Etude tstaccatob Hubinstein
Maria .Henset
La Source Il Leschetitzky
Polonaise .Liszt
|
Fritz Kreislers violin recital with George Falk-
enstein the piano. at the Baptist Temple, Brook
! lyn, Wednesday evening, November q:
Sonata major. .. Handel
] Trle du Dable tDeNllS Irll) t TartIu
! Sarabande .SuZer
I Chant paroles .Tscha
/ Huuuresque
/ Scene de CZarda Hubay
! CanZonetta DvOrak
Caprice
Iwenty-fouFth caprice Paganini
New-York tribune., 1907-11-24
Conductor. Rodolfo FerTari

Aida" will be sung Monday evening with
Mines. Gadsk and Kirkby-Lunn and Messrs
Caruso Scott. Journet and Muhlmann in The lead
iRg roles. Afefstofele' will be the bill on Thurs
day evening. The leading artists in the cast will
be Mines. Farrar. Rappold and Jacoby and
Messrs. Chaliapine and Martin "Adriana Le-
couvreur will be repeated Friday evening
Mines. Cavaleri and Jacoby and Messrs Caruso
Scott. Lucas anI Journet viii appear in the
roles they sang at the opening performance
On Saturday afternoon Die Meistersinger' will
be sung, with Mines. Gadski and Mattfeld and
Messrs- Knote. Van Rooy, Gcritz. Blass Muhl-
mann aud Reiss as the leading characters The
second of the series of performances at popular
prices. next Saturday evening, viii be made at.
traetiye by the repetition of "Rigoietto" with
Nine. Sembrich and Messrs. Honci Stracciari and
JOurnet IL the cast. The performances Of Aida {"
La Boh0nle." ''afedstofele.' -Adriana Iecouvreur
and "Risoletto" VIII be under the musical direc-
ton OF Mr. Ferrar while Mr. Hertz will conduct
Die Mestersager."
The sooists at the first Sunday concert to-nigh ht
VIII be Mines. SeIsb1ich and Langendorr and
Nessrs. Lncas and StracciaTi. II viii be the first
appearance here Of FTieda Langendorn who has
been principal cOntralto OF the Royal Opera House
at Prague for the last three seasons She is a
pupil Of Frau Manger ard she made her debut
strasbnrg in 1901 She has also appeared at
Vienna. Wiesbaden London and Bayreuth The
complete programme for tonight is follows:
Overture Le Hoi ..,....... I.aio
cello solo. Mr. Paul Miersch.
George Lucas
Ara froT samfcn and Daiila' ....-- Saint -eaehs
Nnas grcda LanEendorn
Rlecsrdo sEscelsrL
New-York tribune., 1907-11-24

Eleanor McLeIlan, successor 20 H Hows-r
Brown. has a number OF pupils with voices o
much promise some Of the singers studying Wit
her being Edward Strong, Daniel Beddse an
Beatrice Fine.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-24

Among S. c. Benefits promising pupils Is Miss
Anna Ballard OF Ocean Grove. y. J. Miss Ballard.
who IS making her home in New York. is giving all
her time 20 singing. Another pupil Is ". 7. Byrd,
Of Oklahoma City. Mr.. Benefits studio Is az No.
401 Carnegie Hall
New-York tribune., 1907-11-24

Miss Amy Grant. teacher of the speaking voice.
announces weekly public recitals Sundays at
$50 p. m. at her studio. No. IS West 55th street
Miss Grant states that the readings will be prin-
cpally with music.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-24
STUDIO NOTES.

Mr.. and Mrs. W J. Kitchener are forming man
don and guitar clubs at their residence studio
No 157 West s4th street. IN the near future they
will give concert at the Carnegie Lyceum.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-24

The Family" as illustrated IN instrumental
music by Leopold Damrosch, Richard Strauss and
Richard Wagner. Is the interesting announcement
Of tho New York SYMPHONY Society for the Sun
day afternoon concert of December at Carnegie
Hall. Three works of domestic inspiration will
be played :he first being the late DR. Dam-osch 5
''Hymensen." which has not vet had a public
performance: Strauss's 'Sinfona Domestca' and
Wagner's ''Siegfried y IdyI" on account OF the
unusual demands of the Strauss work the New
York Symphony Orchestra will he reinforced 10
bring the total up 70 IL players ''Hymenan'
was written commemorate the twenty-1fth
niversary Of tho wedding of DIT. Damrosch and
lis wife. Helene Heimburg and was per-
formed by him at their home in this city on their
silver wedding DAY. August 90 1883 Forty men
Of the orchestra of the Symphony Society assem-
tled there secretly. and Mrs. Damrosch ap-
prised of their presence only as the first strains
Of the music commenced The "Siegfred Idyl"
was written by Wagner a birthday gift TO his
wife. Cosima. Its first performance took place
December a. 1911, the steps Of Wagners villa
at Triebschen by a small band of players gath
cred from the neighborhood. Hans Richter played
the trumpet. Wagner himself conducted
New-York tribune., 1907-11-24

William c. Carl Will give free organ recital on
Monday afternoon at o'clock in the Old First
Presbyterian Church, az Fifth and I2tn
street Soloist. Hans kronOld 'cellist. The re-
ctal will be free 10 the public.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-24

Wassily Safonoff has placed the programme
for the two concerts of the Philharmonic Society
Friday afternoon and Saturday evening at Car
negie Hall two compositions by Richard Wagner
which represent that composer at the beginning
and end of his career. respectively. These the
overture TO ''Renz" dating from 1s40 and the
prelude and Giorifcation" from "Parsifal." COM
posed in 1852. It Mr. Safonoff's idea place
in juxtapositon these two works. the former
brilliant heroic and revolutionary dating from
the composers youth. and the second proclaim
ing in its fervent religious spirit the triumph Of
faith and purity. Forty-two years intervened be-
tween the composition OF the two numbers. Ru-
binstein's ocean SYMPHONY and Bruch's Scotch
Fantasia" for violin end orchestra complete the
programme. Edouzrd Dethier. who Will then make
lis first appearance with the Philharmonic So
ciety. is a young Belgian vionist. Last season
Camille Saint-Saens selected him to play his
third concerto and rondo caprcco at a concert
of the French composers works in Washington
NJ. Dethier plays rare Paoo Maggioni VIOLIN
dated Brescia, 1885
New-York tribune., 1907-11-24

his advanced pupils will Be heard IN a pros-z-rs
OF classical plano works.
Gundo Hocke Caseloth played az musical las:
week at the house OF Canon H Knowles. a. No.
113 West 40th street Mr.. Caseloth's studio Is az
Carnegie Hall where he may be seen on Wednes-
days and Saturdays