Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1914 — ARTISTIC TABLE FLY TRAPS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ARTISTIC TABLE FLY TRAPS.

Realizing that ordinary flypaper and fly traps on the diningroom table or in the windows of shops are far from artistic, a French inventor has designed a fly trap which makes a not unpleasant ornament for the table and a drawing attraction for store windows. He provides a disk formed with a ring of depressions or cups, which are baited with Jelly or other foods that attract flies. By means of clockwork in the base of the trap the disk Is slowly revolved, bringing the cups one by one under a vertical cylinder of wire netting. The trap is covered by miniature representations, the one illustrated being a windmill. The flies enter the door of the mill and while they are busy eating

the bait qhey are carried under the tower. Alarmed at this they fly upward, easily finding their way through the openings in the top of the cones. Once in the prison tower they cannot escape and must await the hand of the executioner.

Ingenious Fly Trap.