The 1998 Spittoon Debate in the Lincoln home.

[Susan Higginbotham]

I see two decorative pitchers on the mantle. Did someone think they were spittoons? I don't see anything that resembles a spittoon. I'm confused...

And, I only see one footstool, unless that blob in front of the rocking chair is supposed to be one. I don't think footstools are used with rocking chairs, however.

I think the blob in front of the rocking chair is a footstool. I suppose if someone didn't want to rock back he or she could put his feet up on it. Or maybe the boys just perched on the footstools when the other seats were taken.

I had thought that the pitchers might be what someone was calling spittoons, since I couldn't see anything else in the room that was the spitting image of a spittoon.