[3][4] Nahm sang in the chorus at the Metropolitan Opera and worked as a nurse, before attending medical school.

[5] She gave health and beauty advice – about makeup, shoes, corsets, exercise, relationships, and skincare — in syndicated newspaper articles in the 1910s.

[3] In the 1910s, she was manager of the women's department[12] of the annual Actors' Fund Fair, a major fundraising event.

[13][14][15][16] Ida Catherine Mettler married theatrical manager Simon Nahm in 1892.

She was widowed in 1909,[17] and she died from diabetes in 1922, aged 56 years, at her home in New York City.