 | Marr Murray - Drinking of alcoholic beverages - 1915 - 176 pages
...yet been known. It cannot fail to have an effect on public opinion throughout the civilised world. An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory, and the action of the Tsar has done more for the temperance movement than a whole century of preaching. CHAPTER... | |
 | Joli Sandoz, Joby Winans - Sports & Recreation - 1999 - 342 pages
...eye and unendurable to the under- ®standing. A reform often advances most rapidly by indirection. S. An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory; and the graceful 5^ and becoming costume of woman on the bicycle will convince *• the world that has brushed aside... | |
 | Carol Mattingly - Design - 2002 - 206 pages
...prerequisite" (75) for such activity and would necessitate changes in dress for women. According to Willard, "A reform often advances most rapidly by indirection....constructed, and the arguments, no matter how logical, of dress-reformers" (44). 3. Restraining Women's Rhetoric: Backlash Against the Reform Dress 1. During... | |
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If they do this many prejudices as to what they may be allowed to wear will melt away. Reason will gain upon precedent, and ere long the comfortable, sensible, and artistic wardrobe of the rider will make the conventional style of woman's dress absurd... 