Show POWER or OF WORD VORD OVER mah ma sailing allina life P preserver a bolt bait causer the loss lose 0 of f many lives 1 in n dour bogne disaster A vivid illustration of tho the power of itic arv words over human beings was nce mee bro ight to 10 the attention ot of fa bunc t nga PL people by francisque sarcey barcey after the wreck of the ninny passengers were found floating drowned with life preservers pro servers oil those life preservers were fastened upon the bodies but round the middle liitt ead of under tho the arms arins and the lie greater weight of 0 tho the upper part of the body had tipped the head under water and tho the person of course was I 1 inevitably drowned now it appears that the greater I 1 number lumber of the persons su BO drowned were ivero french tho the french term tor for I 1 lie preservers pre servera Is do sauve t tige lige or life saving belt this word suggests to ill the mind in its moments of disorder and such as a great catastrophe brings the idea of putting on a belt and as a belt Is put round the waist and no where vise else the frightened person instinctively adjusts the life preserver close about the hips the result is that as soon as tho the person so go provided falls alls into the water lily him body tips over with the heavier part downward and the head la Is plunged beneath the surface the word wom belt bell therefore was tho the cause of the loss of many lives in III tho the bourgogne Dourg disaster sarcey barcey accordingly proposed to counteract tho the fn an tal effect of the article and calling lit it a brassiere which Is a kind of wals waist t ald by bringing the word bras or arm ami to mind to teach people to put a lih life preserver on just underneath the arms |