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Show Children Tiptoe at Work I As Mother Lies 'Asleep9 NttW TORK, Oct II (INS Usually it wu nlco to anujgla up acalnaC mother In bd, but for tha last couplo of nlghta It cemed to 4-yer-old Maria Ca hill, mother waa "awful cold." Big brothan Bernard and WU- time.1 Kennedy led the children to the bedroom. There the young-atere young-atere gently called "Mother, wake up," gently shook the still form. An ambulance surgeon aaid Mrs. Cahill had been dead at least 49 hours, apparently from natural causes. Ham, the 11-year-old twins, said maybe It waa becaus mother had been "sleeping so long" and Michael, (, and Dennis, I, agreed. Not until Raymond Kennedy, an Insurance agent, visited the Cahill flat did tha childish minds today grasp th heart-breaking fact that mother's sleep was UrnaL Widowed mother of fiv, Mrs. Alice Cahill lay motionless In her bed while the children tip-toed about th house, got their own meal, did their little chores and whispered to each other not to "wake mother." Th children also -cautioned Kennedy that "mother la sleeping sleep-ing ehe'a been sleeping a long |