New-York tribune., 1916-05-03
Married Man | Wanted" "
Answers Daughter of
"MethOdiSt Warwick"
MET IN SETTLEMENT;
NO SECRET, SHE SAYS
EX-Soldier of Vera Cruz Com
paign Ardent WoOer-"Never
Saw Wife," Says Mother.

lFrom stan Correspondent o. The Tribune
Morristown, n. j., May 2.-"I have
married the man | wanted to marry"
Blushing and triumphant, Mrs. Sarah
Buckley Pignone, daughter Of noted
clergyman. to-day offered this brides
logic in explanation of her secret mar
riaGe, on April /. to Ernest Pignone,
young Italian bricklayer, whom she
first met in her mission work at the
Neighborhood Home, in Flagler Street.
AS the only child of the Rev. DR..
James NJ Buckley, a former editor of
"The Christian Advocate" and man
known as "the Warwick of Methodism,"
she has been accustomed all her life to
luxury.
One of several in his family, Pignone
has set forth to work daily. in oyeralls
and with dinner pail. But these trifing
details Of class difference are not the
things that matter, both explained.
Love-it's the only thing that counts!
Mrs. Pignone discussed the matter
yesterday, propped upon her elbow on
a couch in her fathers big house, at 46
Hill Street. where the two young peo-
pie will make their home with him.
She was dressed in a blue negligee,
there was scrap of a blue boudoir
cap on her fluffy hair, and the eyes be
meath it were bluer than ,he forget
me-nots that trimmed her robe. They
were the eyes Of an entirely happy
woman.
Just Happy Bride.
"Of course, we're going to be happy
she said.
She had her own runabout, and her
own society affairs, but they never en-
tirely satisfied her Three years ago
she first found true content when she
lost herself in her mission work in
Flagler Street. Here she came face 10
face with the real things of life, and
liked them. SO wnen love, the realest
thing of all, knocked at her door, she
was ready 10 open il with q smile and
no questions on her lips.
I've met in our work at the Neigh
borhood Home about year ago she
said. For three years / have been
going there as a volunteer worker 20
teach the kindergarten students. When
Ernest came back from Vera Cruz.
where he was 8 member of Company c
of the 9TH Infantry, he came 10 teach
the boys athletics. That's how We
met"
There's nothing secret about it, ex-
cept the marriage" Mrs. Pignone ex-
planned And that is the way had
always intended to be married. We
went on April 1 to 81. Marks Church.
in New York. We did not tell my
father about it until a short time after
ward, but he was not surprised for
had told him all about things He has
given US his blessing"
Because they knew that the news
was bound TO come as more or less Of
a jolt TO certain Of the colder families"
of Morristown, lifelong friends of the
brides, who had never met the bride
groom, they agreed with the Rev. DR..
Buckley 10 wait until May 10 before
making the announcement Of their we'd
ding. At this time the father meant
70 be absent at church convention,
and the two young people had planned
10 set off with him on their honeymoon
journey, leaving the surprise of their
"at home" cards behind them. Some
how, however, the story leaked out
Woman Denies She Is Thirty-five.
"What I dislike most about the mat
ter" said the bride, essentially and
sweetly feminine, els that the papers
have got our ages all wrong. Why. they
say that | am thirty-fve and that
Ernest is only twenty-one!"
She was really troubled about il, and
no wonder For Mrs. Pignone is only
twenty-siX. Her husband is twenty-six
also. He is a tall, tanned young fellow.
with brown eyes that look straight at
you, and a smile that accounts for a
great deal.
NO he laughed. 81 haven't any
thing to say about loves young dream
not for publication. After all. it's
our romance, dye see? Her father
wasn't opposed to our getting married.
What do think Of her? She's not the
kind Of a girl you can put in words.
What am going TO do? Why, I'm
going TO go on working, Of course"
The whole Italian colony thrills to
the thought Of the wedding. On her
top floor tenement, at No. s Flagler