RUST

"Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears; while the used key is always bright."

Rust is iron plus air and water, plus nature. Attention has been directed to the rusting of iron the past few years as never before. The increasing use of iron, and especially of steel, in buildings, bridges, cars, and fences is a sufficient reason for this greater public interest. Besides, there is a strong suspicion in the minds of many users of steel, amounting to a conviction with some, that modern-made steel rusts faster than the old-fashioned product of the iron mills.

Rusting was once so obvious and simple a  matter  that  everybody  understood  it.

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