27/05/2026
๐ฝ๐๐๐ค๐ง๐ ๐๐ค๐๐๐ง๐ฃ ๐ฝ๐๐๐ช๐ฉ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐ช๐๐๐ฃ๐จ,๐ฉ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐๐จ ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ก ๐๐ง๐ค๐ข ๐๐ช๐ข๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ๐,๐๐ฉ๐ค๐๐ค๐ฃ,๐ฝ๐๐ฃ๐๐ช๐๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐๐ค ๐ข๐๐๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ค๐ง๐ฎ ๐๐ฃ 1915 ๐โจ๏ธ
๐๐ฑ๐ช๐ฒ๐ท๐พ๐ผ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ต๐๐ท ๐๐พ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฎ๐
First Baguio Carnival Queen of 1915
Known as the sweetheart of the mountains.
The youngest beauty queen in the history of the Philippine carnival
Born in 1900 in Gumatdang. She was the eldest of 10 children of the couple Longinus โKiriโ Guirey and โShahadiโ Flora Pacalso. Her siblings were Lorenzo; Savayna; Angtan; Fausta; Paela; Mary; Philip; Kulong, and Helen.
Except for Lorenzo; Fausta, and Helen, the other siblings died of unknown diseases at tender ages.
In 1909 she was enrolled by her parents in Bua Public School together with โSavelโ Isabel Compalas also from Gumatdang.
There were about fifteen school girls in her class. All students were housed in a dormitory where parents and guardians delivered food staff aside from provisions provided by the American teachers like Mrs. Alice Kelly.
On weekends or when needed, parents or guardians took turns fetching water from nearby water springs. They would fill the water tanks provided and installed by the Americans from the mining site of Antamok.
Hygiene and sanitation was the norm as American teachers supervised the washing, bathing, and cooking by the school girls.
Aside from the academic subjects, the students selected skills they were comfortable with like dress making; cooking and music playing.
By 1915, Chainus was selected as the first Baguio carnival queen then later represented Baguio Benguet as beauty contestant in the Manila Carnival in 1918. She was the first Igorot girl to join the Manila Carnival. She was studying at that time in St. Lukeโs Hospital taking up nursing.
She was not able to finish her studies in said school when she contracted tuberculosis and never recovered. She died in the same hospital in 1920.
Her grandfather Pacalso and father Kiri appealed to the Baguio leadership headed by Mayor Halsema to bring home to Gumatdang her remains. The leadership prevailed to have her buried at the Baguio Cemetery.
๐ Aloysius Guirey Kato
May 5,2026
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