He takes Ida Putiak, a manicure girl who works at the Pompeian Barber Shop, to the Biddlemeier's Inn, but he doesn't want her to "think [he's] getting fresh" when he asks her out.  
He makes Joe, his guide, trek to Box Car Pond instead of taking the boat, something Joe hasn't done in sixteen years.  He takes Ida Putiak, a manicure girl who works at the Pompeian Barber Shop, to the Biddlemeier's Inn, but he doesn't want her to "think [he's] getting fresh" when he asks her out.  He dabbles in politics through his friendship with Seneca Doane.  He visits a woman named Zilla after her husband is put in jail for shooting her in the arm, and he catches that husband, Paul (*) Reisling, in Chicago with May Arnold.  He cheats on his wife Myra with Tanis Judique, whom he helps find a house.  He is pressured to join the Good Citizens' League by Vergil Gunch and is the owner of a real-estate firm in the modern city of Zenith.  For 10 points, name this title character of a 1920 novel by Sinclair Lewis.
He makes Joe, his guide, trek to Box Car Pond instead of taking the boat, something Joe hasn't done in sixteen years.  
{Babbitt   }