Show I CALAIS AND ITS LIGHTHOUSE Calais Is rather an untidy place for fora a French town The Place dArmes where the tower of the Hotel de Ville has remained since the fifteenth century century cen cen- tury Is IB the center spot Here Calais meets its friends and has its cafe noir In the square towering out of o of the ther r roofs of surrounding houses and dwarfing them Is the old watch tower Since 1848 It has been superseded as asa asa asa a lighthouse by the magnificent one oneat oneat oneat at present In use Never shall I forget forget for for- get the effect of this lighthouse as I stood under it that night The revolving ing ig Pg spokes of light cast away Into I filmy space in all directions looked like the ribs of a huge umbrella being turned by the white handle which was the lighthouse tower So tall Is this thin that Its revolving light can be seen Been from a distance of ot twenty miles at Bea Wide pea Wide World Magazine |