The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-06-02

the ap0k0eC2xt 130 sSNAr<Szy uAsAttsSS1 hts paxrcn with an assurance that his vlsh should be respected, whca he received nocturnal visit from Mrs Byron. who had come. not to buy poissn. but to beg sha, no kind of deadly stuff should be sold to her son.
 Byron's physique afected his character so strongly that 1t cannot be passed over. His lameness was a congenital contrac- ton of the tendon Achilles of both feet, which presented him from ever bearing his weight upon his hec1s, so that he went through life on tipsoe, unable to walk more than a few rods without rest ing. and hopping along, as Leigh Hunt remarked, like . biud It injured him greatly, for 1t cut him of from needed ex- ercise, and constantly mortified his in- tense vanity. A still more important pc culiariH was his tendency to obesity, which vas only overcome by measures thas took much of the pleasure from life. As . boy he was thick bodied and heavy featured; as youth he :" expanded with a fat till he became iudierous and repuisive so beholders, and especially to the other sex, whose ap- proval he was always thinking of. At nineteen he weighed over 700. "The young man of abnormal gir,h and large shoulders tottcring unsteAdily on spindle limbs and small distorted fee, had face swollen to unsightliness with fatty tissue.' And his brain was overweighed as his torin. l, is no wonder that he used the
 most violent measures for relief.
 He submitted to starvation and physic in order to escape loashsome un- sish,liness and besides relieving him of the repulsive aspect, the regimen-so his astonishment and delight endowed him ~i,h beauty tha; became proverbial. No longer big and puffy. his eye-lids and cheeks became fine and hrm and deli cate. with curves as clean in outline as the curves of sculpture Ceasing to be thick and heavy, his lips and chin as- sumed the peculiar sweetness and soft ness that made him in tue lower part of his coantenanrc a be~itohinsiy charm ing woman rather that. 4 handsome man. while his voice grew silserv. hls eyes frightened. hi. complexion purified. and hls hair bccawc lusrous. The transformation of his ssuc was no less striklng-a body of grace and dign.hed elegance being substituted fsr body of almost loutish clumsincss He cs1aia walk with comparative ease and see4- riiy: :" and wha. IS even more nsse- worthy than ali the cstcf results of the regimen taken togee@cr IS tha, hs dis e,pilinc of starvation and drastic depie- tives quickened k,s bran ,o snch a degree that the mxs of intellect. for the first tune. knew hin to be something far higher than x <staa of mere in.ellee
 The goads and sk.ps of the gerimen hal affected the narrow system so th9t hc had become d u~n of genus. He hSs gone n drugs aEd stagNaf.un a. the W- s,;ga,ion of personal van.sy. Heueefoftd he preslsted in csins them for the s.-c 0. the delights 0 that higes. life - ,,.ss t ,hey had raised him. and from whiea he soon sunk surely and qaiek!y Wi,Aous their assistance"
 Up to this tune he had done nosIinE 10 show extraordinary a5ll.iy. Ills career at school and the university had been marked hy no; much more ,hxa the usual violence and dissipation o( all kinds. He had written nothing hei sa;irieal verses full of gall. His vche- men; bu, ephelneral devotion ,o Mary Duff. Margarc Parker and Mary Cha worth, had been accompanied by coarse dissipation displayed with cynical audaciiy. Hut now came an <nurc change. He had go, the mastery oi hm- self and he awokc one morning and found himself famous, for 'aGallGe
 Harold had appeared. and al! London was at the feel of the hand some lolls aasi talkative peer whose wonderful genius had brough, forth from hts harsa mother
 tongue music more ensrancins than poet Tyre had ever gwen before. '.S' atcs- men and philosophers wrote hlm grave
 ui;eranoes of tneir homage. queens ot society rained biilets doux down upon hlm. S,. Janaos street was blocked with Carriages pressing to his door and talk
 of Byr'n. Btr'n. was audible oves the babble of every dinner table and salon of
 May Fair Prosperity did him good
 for time. His conduct was more dec orous fl not more moral, and he poured forth one marvellous poem after ana ther
 with pen whose fertility was undsmin- ished by the demands of society Then | he feli>in io~e with and married the charming heiress, Miss M.ilhank. For few monshs he was happy-as tong. probably. as hs hckle. shallow nature could be cont-n,ed with any @oolzn
 Then ne turned away from her and re- lapsed again inso open dissipation. and society suddenly discovered that its n.ol. af,er having Eroianely written aboG,
 heaven, and even lampooned the regent. had now gone tSo far and become x:s- reputabie-and | cut him. It was eae one rebuke that fyron could feel. and te did feel 1t intensely. He loved to shock people, bu, 10 br .despised for his vulgx- ] fly was iniolerahe: and he left England
 never 10 return- Mir. Jaefireson tells the story of his scAn6aious foreign life a
 some length. bat there was nothing ex- cept its no,oriesy todistinguish his course from that of other absolute, weak men until his interest IF the Cfecian rebellion gaze his life wortkier n o;iye at iis close
 Mr. Jeadreson thinks ,ka; Byron would one tune have resulned to England and resumed his place ic society had no, the kCountess Guiocioli ( dssuzded him. and II