The 1998 Spittoon Debate in the Lincoln home.

[Anita]

I was thinking about Mrs. Lincoln owning forty footstools. At first that number sounds excessive; but was it then? You all tell me. If you placed a couple of them in the various rooms of a house the numbers would add up. Or am I off my rocker? Lol.

Was this just in the Springfield house or the White House? I would think homes during Victorian times had more footstools than today and would wear out needing replacing.