Show P POWER OWER I 1 OF WORD OVER MAN calling life preserver a belt caused the loss loos of many lives in bourgogne disaster A vivid illustration of tile the power ot of mere words over human beings was ance bro ight to the attention or of french people by Francis quo sarcey barcey after the wreck of 0 the bourgogne many passengers were found floating drowned with life preservers on these life preservers were fastened upon the bodies but round the middle instead of under tinder the arms and the greater weight ot of the upper part of tho the body had bad tipped the lead head under water and the person of course was inevitably drowned now it appears that the greater number or of the persons so drowned w ere french the french term tor for life preservers Is de sauve tage or life saving belt this word suggests to 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 tho the waw waist and nowhere else the frightened person instinctively adjusts the life preserver close about the hips the result Is that as soon as the person so provided falls into the water his body tips over with the heavier part downward and the head is plunged beneath the surface the word belt therefore was tho the cause of the loss of many lives in the bourgogne Dour gogno disaster sarcey barcey accordingly proposed to counteract tho the fatal effect of 0 the article and calling lit a brassiere which Is a wool kind of waist ard and by bringing the word bras or arm to mind to teach people to put a life preserver on just underneath the arms |