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I have always been fond of what is clearly a lost demonstration of gentlemanly etiquette. Specifically to the act of one standing when a woman leaves or approaches the table. I have been thinking about this more and more lately and finally decided to research possible origins and though I cant confirm definitively I was able to find one such explanation. In the times of Caesar and at an event in the palace Caesar Saladius accidentally spilled some hot beverage on his lap just as his wife and/or his lover approached the table, and he jumped up. The wife/lover thought Saladius was doing it for her, and the next day when she met all her Roman lady friends at the spa and/or vomitorium, she bragged to them about how gentlemanly her husband/lover was. The Roman ladies naturally all went home and gave their husbands hell about not standing up when they approached the table, and so a Rule was born.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 05:26:05 +0000

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