Mary Belle Spencer was the public guardian of Cook County around 1920, but it was her laissez-faire child-rearing methods that garnered publicity.
Attorney Mary Belle Spencer was fined for contempt of court and sent to the county jail due to her refusal to pay a $50 fine in 1925.
Her parenting style garnered as much publicity as her legal career. She believed her daughters, Mary Belle and Victoria, were entitled to what was regularly described as a “do-as-you-please” childhood. That philosophy made the exploits of the free-spirited girls a godsend to editors scrambling to fill their pages on slow news days nearly a century ago.Neither daughter went down her chosen path because they had been neglected by their mother.
Mary Belle Spencer might have been genetically predisposed to marching to the beat of a different drummer. Her father went off to the Alaskan gold rush of the 1890s, and while he was away his wife and daughters moved from Wisconsin to Chicago. He returned empty-handed but with endless tales of adventure to spin at the family’s dinner table.Mary Belle Spencer, attorney at law in Chicago. In the Tribune and other publications, Spencer often was invariably referred to as a “woman lawyer.
When Spencer’s daughter Victoria was 15, she was to perform in a chorus line at the Oriental Theater. That resulted in a dust up between Mary Belle Spencer and the show’s producer when she insisted her daughter be slotted for a “specialty dance,” according to Tribune reports. Mary Belle Spencer, left, and her daughter Victoria, who was to go on the stage as a fan dancer in 1937.
She disputed Horner’s authority to do so but resigned almost two years later on Dec. 3, 1921. “My law practice demands my full time,“ she explained.
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