_Accept the inevitable_, do not argue or fret about it, put worry aside, go to work to find a new position, and make what seemed to be an evil the stepping-stone to something better.
Mrs.Jessie Benton Fremont, the wife of the gallant pathfinder, General Fremont, was afflicted with deafness in the later years of her life.

She,--the petted and flattered, the caressed and spoiled child of fortune, the honored and respected woman of power and superior ability--deaf, and unable to participate in the conversation going on around her.

Many a woman under these conditions, would have become irritable, irascible, and a reviler of Fate.

To any woman it would have been a great deprivation, but to one mentally endowed as Mrs.
Fremont, it was especially severe.

Yet did she "worry" about it?
No! bravely, cheerfully, boldly, she _accepted the inevitable_, and in effect defied the deafness that had come to her to destroy her happiness, embitter her life, take away the serenity of her mind and the equipoise of her soul.