SANTA MONICA, Oct. 12. — The joke is on Judge Hervey and the officers who drew the names of the jurors to do service in Department Seven of the Superior Court, beginning the 19th inst. On the list appears the name of Johanna Engleman of this city, and the Sheriff's deputy came here today with a summons for the juror named.

Calling at No. 1338 Fifth-street for Johanna Engleman of this city, the deputy was received at the door by a good-natured German woman. She expressed surprise that she should be called upon to do jury duty, but said she would be present in court at the appointed time. . . .

She says it may be all right for women to become active in school matters and she believes they might even serve on juries, although in her opinion a woman generally is too tender-hearted to make a good juror. . . . she is sure that she could not by her vote in the jury box say the word that would place a rope about a man's neck and consign him to the gallows.

As for women in politics — none of that for her, says Mrs. Engleman. The place for woman is at home, in her estimation. She is entirely satisfied that the men should do all the voting, conduct the campaign and fill the offices. . . .

SANTA MONICA, Oct. 29 — Jurywoman Johanna Engelmann of this city, the first woman to do venire service in California, is tasting the fruits of fame.

. . . she has been the victim of kodak fiends and newspaper reporters, and in the Superior Court has been the object of the gaze of the curious crowd. Her face has been printed in the papers, and her name has appeared so often that her correspondence has grown greatly.

Three of the letters contain proposals of marriage. One, she coyly confesses, is from an immensely wealthy man. She has also received an application from a person anxious to become her private secretary. . . .

Mrs. Engelmann is still inclined to look upon the matter in the nature of a joke, although admitting that she sees no reason why her judgment or that of any other educated, thinking woman who reads and studies, should not be as good as that of men . . . .

She continues to entertain the opinion that those of her sex are imbued with as keen a sense of justice as men, and that they are just as competent to recognize the right or discern the wrong as their brothers.

The fact that women have not heretofore been recognized in California as competent jurors is, to her way of thinking, no bar to their being drawn in the future for such duty, provided the law is as the judges of the Superior Court of Los Angeles county are interpreting it.

Note: Mrs. Engelmann was excused from serving upon a peremptory challenge. The New York Times version of this story gave her name also as Josephine Anna Engelman.