The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-28
THE GILLIAN SEN0R|TA.
She Is Wondrous Fascinating and
Charming to the Eye of
Man.
Her Most Potent and Dangerous
Feature Is Her Eyes So
LustrOus.
Demure Maid at Mass, an Inveterate Co.
quette on the PrOmenade-How
They Are Wooed.

Something must be wrong with the man
who would not promptly lay down his life
for a Gillian senorita, says the New York
Sun. Either the blood of common human
ity does not flow in his veins, or he is not
fitted for comprehension of one of the most
marvellous types Of feminine perfection.
Tho whole western world may be searched
from Grinnell's Land to Cape Horn, but
nowhere can be found more fascinating
and more beautiful women than in thai
picturesque and remote slip of fertile land
crowded between the Andes and the blue
waters of tho southern Pacific. The Chill
ian flowers, as they are styled in their own
language, are generally Of Andalusian, Cas-
lillian and Valsncian types. The principal
features of their appearance are oval faces,
olive compilations, dark n abundant hair,
dark, large and l~ustrous eyes. full chins,
rather underlined but full figures, small
and shapely hands and feet, and Castil-
ian insteps, under which water could flow.
The Gillian woman's most potent and
dangerous feature is her eyes. In public
the women look out at one with slow and
languid glances, sometime wickedly, some
times innocently and wonderinRly, as New
Workers may have seen fawns in Central
park look at quiet spectators. But under
the cover of the home their eyes and
light and glow and melt. They are at times
the window of q nature of deep spiritual
tenderness; at other times they CLEAN with
coquetry. At morning mass the senorita
has the self forgotten gaze OF q clustered
nun; at the afternoon promenade she shoots
Grant glances with the audacity of a
grisette.
The characteristic dress of the las flores
Chilenas is black and plain. OF course it
has tuoks and pleats and cores in the skirt.
and occasionally lace and embroidery.
From the head falls the world-famed man
tilla, a light wrap, generally of China
silk, often costing hundreds of dollars. An
edge is drawn over the head, and the rest of
tho garment falls to the shoulders and
thence continues. sometimes to the waist,
sometimes to the hips, and sometimes to
the feet. The right co ner is then drawn
across the breast and over the left shoul-
der, like the ancient Roman toga, and be-
hind is fastened with Il black brooch of let,
The outlines of tho head and the shoulders
arc thus shown, though artistically draped
while a corner of the mantilla projects
over the forehead and shades the eyes.
Ihefe are no women on the western helnis-
phere better dressed than the senoritas of
the upper classes in Valparaiso and San.
tiago, for they follow the latest Partisan
fashions, and import all clothing down
to their open-wo1k silk stockings.
On waxing. a senotita nj her
house-muid to bring her n little food, which
she enjoys in the sanctity of her bed. Then,
having donned skirt and mantiIla, she re-
pairs with her portly but sharp-eyed duenna
to mass, accompanied by a female servant,
who carries her prayer book and prayer
book rug. The rug is an article of neces-
slty, for the scnorita kneels for many min