Winslow

pro tem. — This is an appeal by defendant from an interlocutory decree of divorce granted to plaintiff on the ground of wilful neglect.

The parties were married in Chicago in 1887, and for some years prior to 1916 they had been making their home in Milwaukee, though Mrs. Winslow had been in the habit of spending the winters near Los Angeles, where she had sisters and could be near a daughter attending Pomona College. In September, 1916, with the consent of defendant, who provided the traveling expenses for his wife and daughter, they journeyed to California; and neither Mr. nor Mrs. Winslow regarded their separation at the time as permanent, though a letter written in August, 1916, by defendant to inquire about a house for his wife in Pasadena indicated that defendant expected the wife to be with the daughter in California for the next four years. At the time of Mrs. Winslow’s departure in September, 1916, the defendant was employed by an insurance company and earned $200 a month. That employment ceased not long after the wife left Milwaukee, and for about a year defendant found employment only at irregular intervals and his earnings were small. In November, 1918, however, he…